Your first attempt does not have to justify your potential.

First attempts are not verdicts. They are a sample of one, taken under the worst conditions you will ever face at that thing: no experience, no calibration, no idea what you are doing. Reading potential off that sample is a poor method, and yet it is the method most people use before quitting.

Give anything new an agreed number of attempts before you allow yourself to judge it, and pick the number now while you are still willing. Five, ten, a season. Then look at the trend rather than any single result. That is the measurement that would actually tell you something.