alt Hacker NewsPeople exist that pick up that chisel / basketball / soldering iron and do something really impressive with it after being shown 0..2 times. They might have horrible technique, not know the little tricks and shortcuts, plateau quickly etc., but their experience of doing the thing is not a series of failures until they get reasonably OK at it, rather increasing levels of wins.
Those people are still growing the limit of their ability just like you. They're just trying things slightly under their current limit* instead of slightly over.
* Not an electronics pun