This seems like a great bundle of ideas, advice, and perspectives!
Often, just starting is the hardest thing. At least for me, that’s where feeling super self-conscious often happens and stops me from doing anything. I sometimes set a timer for 5 minutes to do work. That’s short enough that it feels ridiculous not to be able to it, and afterwards I often feel way less self-conscious and can just continue.
This seems like a great bundle of ideas, advice, and perspectives!
This reminds me of the Eliezer Yudkowsky post Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting.