A low profile gives you room to make mistakes nobody watches.

Attention raises the cost of every error. When people are watching, a normal mistake becomes a story, and you start choosing the safe option to avoid becoming one. Out of the spotlight, the same mistake is just information you get to keep. That freedom to be bad at something is how anyone gets good at it.

Do your learning where the stakes are low and the audience is small. Try the new thing in practice rather than the game, in the side project rather than the main one. Save the visible version for when you have already made the embarrassing mistakes in private.