When you’re used to being good at things, failing at something new feels like a crisis. It’s just being new.

People who pick things up quickly often skip the beginner stage so fast that they never learn what it feels like. So the first genuinely hard thing arrives looking like evidence of some hidden limit rather than the ordinary cost of starting. Everyone good at anything was once bad at it. You simply have less practice at that particular part, which makes it a stage rather than a diagnosis.

Take up something you will be visibly bad at and stay with it for a month. A language, an instrument, a sport outside your own. Keep going through the week where you are worst, because that week is the exercise.