I can’t start work until I study everything thoroughly, does it happen?

Question

Android

Does it ever happen to you that you decide to learn something new and try it in your application, but until you thoroughly read and study everything, you can’t start?
For example, I decided to try using RxJava in an application, sat down at the documentation, started reading, then from this documentation, went to Habr and started reading articles there, then from there I saw a couple of unfamiliar words like Executor, Future, Callable, ThreadPoo and went to read a chapter in a book about multithreading. And in the end, 3-4 hours passed, I still didn’t do anything, I figured out the current a little in the library, but I never applied it. It’s just that I can’t start without really understanding what I’m dealing with, I feel like I’m hacking and in fact I don’t know anything and that I need to study it all.
Like impostor syndrome? Does it happen?

Answer 1

More like a fear of making mistakes. You are afraid to do something wrong, so you dig into cozy articles instead of taking it and trying it. In principle, it may even turn out to be useful if you nevertheless, as a result, take up the application of the knowledge gained and actually use what has been accumulated in the articles.

Answer 2

until you thoroughly read and study everything, you cannot proceed

in the end, 3-4 hours passed, I still didn’t do anything

Have you learned anything in three hours? Good joke.

Like impostor syndrome?

No. To earn impostor syndrome, you must first become a specialist. Dedicate at least 3-4 years to a topic, not 3-4 hours.