Everybody can learn to walk

When we are learning something new, and we struggle with failures, some of us can easily get unmotivated and convince ourselves that we are simply unskilled at what we are trying to learn, and therefore that there is no point in learning it. 'It's useless, I'm not good at it.' Then, there is also the case when you are on the other side of the mirror: When you are (relatively) skilled at something,…