The skater falls a hundred times before landing the kickflip. The courage is in the hundred, not the one.

The landed trick is the part that gets filmed, and it is the least interesting part of the story. What took nerve was going back after the ninety ninth attempt, with sore shins and no evidence that today would be different. That is where the whole thing was actually decided. The clip is just the moment the count ran out.

Pick something you are learning and count attempts instead of results this week. Give it a number, say forty, and keep going until you get there. Notice that the fear shrinks somewhere in the middle, long before the thing works.