As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

Nobody arrives able to do the thing; the ones who look natural have simply put the hours in somewhere you did not see. This matters because most people quit early, having taken their first clumsy attempts as evidence about themselves rather than evidence about how long they have been trying. Skill is almost always a record of repetition, on the water and everywhere else.

Choose one thing you have been avoiding because you are bad at it, and give it four sessions rather than one. Judge yourself at the end of the fourth, not the first.