I had this tendency too, and I&#x27;ve found that it helps to explicitly declare the first part of your process as &quot;start at this new thing and suck at it.&quot; Firstly, because in order to suck at something, <i>you&#x27;re doing it</i>, however badly. Secondly, because once you have some results, however bad, you can improve.<p>It&#x27;s exactly like randomly initializing a neural net before starting with your training data. The results from the random weights will be garbage but that doesn&#x27;t mean they&#x27;re not useful.