1:07 AM, Monday January 29th 2024
Perfect is the enemy of good. While developing bad habits is a danger I think developing something is better than developing nothing. Bad habits aren't an unshakeable curse. Often they can be good lessons in what you don't like and what things you actually need to focus on. You'll also be able to sooner spot people who are going down your same path and tell them your experiences to possibly help them.
Learning a skill is a process of making your internalized choices more deliberate, examining and changing them with an eye to some new you've just studied, and then re-internalizing them hopefuly improved in some way. It is that, over and over again. It doesn't matter if what you are examining was a bad habit or just something you never even knew to consider before. It is all the same. Nobody but the freshest of babies go into anything as a blank slate.
A good community or mentor you show your work to a lot will hopefully help keep you heading the right direction.