A hard week at work isn’t proof you’re bad at the job. It’s proof the job is hard. Keep learning it.

A new job is genuinely difficult, and difficulty gets misread as evidence about you rather than about the task. Early weeks are meant to feel like too much, because you are doing the hardest version of everything for the first time with no shortcuts built yet. Being bad at something you have done for three weeks is the normal condition of a person learning. Keep the difficulty and the self-assessment separate.

At the end of a hard week, write down two things you can do that you could not a month ago. Ask one question about whatever went worst. Then rest properly, come back, and keep learning the job.