I'll throw in my two cents. My father wasn't very mechanically inclined or just chose not to be so growing up so no one really taught me how to be hands on. Well, getting into college and working on the baja club and buying my own project has been more of a difficulty for me. I have to make assumptions and learn on the job and tend to do the stupidest things, unable to complete even the smallest job 50% of the time. Doing the work on my own I lack all confidence and prolong even the easiest tasks. I wish I had someone to show me how things worked when I was younger because I feel it's harder to learn things on your own the older you get. I honestly don't know how some people can just look at something for the first time, take it apart, learn everything about it, and then put it all back together. I guess I was never born with the knack.
It's taken me almost a year, on and off, for me to try to fix my brake situation and I'm still not done. I bet if anyone else on this board were given the opportunity to do the work that I've done and plan to do, it would take them a couple weeks tops. I keep looking at the job and seeing how easy it can be, but at the same time I just don't have the motivation to work on it due to the fear of not doing it before and screwing up.