Why did it take me so long to realize that doing something badly is miles better than not doing it. I was procrastinating on going through an economics course because "I need to take comprehensive notes and write essays to refine my understanding lol". Recently, I just said screw it and started to binge watch it.
Now the need to write essays has risen from within, out of need to comprehend things better once I watched the 4th lecture. It doesn't feel like an obligation anymore weighing heavy on my shoulders, a reason for me to procrastinate on things I want to do.
Will say "fuck it" and start doing things I want to do rather than overthinking and procrastinating on them. Start doing things badly and you'll automatically find ways to understand or retain the material if you're really honest and curious about it. Also started a networking course using this principle, and 10 lectures in, I realized that I don't really care about the OSI model at this point in time. Will probably come back to it later, but at least I didn't waste large amounts of time making ANKI cards and taking notes for a thing I'm not genuinely interested in right now.