I was checking my Youtube feed when this video came up, it's called "No Fear - Falling".
It features the professional climber Adam Ondra talking about how to overcome the fear of falling when you are a rock climber.
I think it's a perfect analogy for new indie hackers working on their product. Here are some quotes I found insightful:
Sound familiar?
We are very afraid of our product failing, wondering how to avoid that and what would we do if that happens. Precious time we would be better off using to actually fail, stop being worried and putting our brain to better use.
I'm a very noob climber (mostly indoor, since you asked :) and a very noob indie hacker aswell. Still, I'm more afraid of failing than falling. So, I yet have to work on both.
Totally makes sense. This is why having a small MVP is important, I think. For psychological reasons. If you spent a year doing something and found it didn't work, you'd be devastated. But the "scar" is smaller if you've built something in a week say.