A difficult opportunity becomes less intimidating when your skills arrived first.

Difficulty is measured against capacity, not in the abstract. The same opportunity feels crushing to one person and interesting to another, and the difference is usually whether the skills were already sitting there when the door opened. Fear of a big chance is often just an honest report about a gap you have not closed yet.

Think about the opportunity you would most want and least feel ready for. Name the one capability that gap depends on, and start building it now, before anyone offers you anything. When the offer comes you want to be responding to it, not scrambling to become someone who can accept it.