I myself have to take the hobby one day at a time. And maybe each time out with it, I have to recommit.
But, I never sweat the mistakes. In fact I choose to learn everything I can from them. Been an audiophile for more than 50 yrs now, and the road to my success at it has been paved with far more of my mistakes than successes.
Mostly, I think that’s all this endeavor really is, a game of mistakes.
My success at system building has been a game of eliminating all the mistakes in the setup that I’m aware of. And yet my road getting there was paved on my embracing all the mistakes I made - every step of the way. But, if I had never kept track of those mistakes, one way or another, from the start, I never could’ve put myself in the position of being able to remove them in the end result.
The more years pass, the more value my mistakes have had to me, after all, I now have a lot more experience at making them than most, lol
But every mistake remembered, is a mistake averted, somewhere down the line.