Time spent on learning a skill should equally spend time for applying said skill
as drawn from the Drawabox course, there should be time spent on actually applying said skill for your own purposes; in the end, Self-learning is about responsibility; you may as well throw the whole progress if you don't soak time for doing said skill
technical knowledge isn't going to your future practical applications any better; the act of applying said knowledge is a skill itself
while you may have the technical knowledge of Illustration, if you cannot draw the things that truly matters then it isn't truly progress
while you have taken several online courses about Programming, if you don't have an actual project to work on (whether it is to scratch your own itch or contribute in other projects) for whatever reason then it is ultimately useless
that is basically applying for biology major in college and only stopping at the actual knowledge
basically, the idea of balancing time on work versus play
obstacles
out of fear and judgement; the fear of embarrassing ourselves to the wider audience if mistakes are shown; the worst case scenario is people will simply ignore it; simply put, no one truly cares; while it is important to Communicate with others to learn, you should also tone down being self-critical
Procrastination is also one but not of the typical variety; most people would see a thing for future projects and evaluate it as something that they cannot do in the current level until they can reach their desired skill level; there is one more problem to this approach: we cannot simply know; not only this can turn into a situation where Overanalyzing slow you down, we'll eventually realize that We know more compared to what we understood; thus, the potential start for procastination will begin; to mitigate this problem, the solution is simple: just start; pursue the said too-advanced-for-me-type of project and use it as your jumpboard for starting out; Diving head-first with a difficult problem is a good indicator of progress