Growth takes the nerve to be a beginner in front of people who knew you as good.

Being new is easier among strangers, because nobody has a previous file on you. Doing it in front of people who watched you be competent at something else means risking the version of you they already respect. That is the actual nerve required, and it is why so many capable people stay in the lane they mastered. Reputation can quietly become a cage.

Find one skill you want and learn it somewhere visible rather than in secret. Let the people who know you see the clumsy early stage. Most of them will be more interested than critical, and the ones who are not are telling you something useful.