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Let yourself be bad at things
Two reasons:
1) Doing a bad job will teach you the most important lesson, which is how to follow through and complete your activity or project. Once you've done it, even if you failed, you can learn to do it better. But if you abandon an attempt midway because it's not perfect or even any good, you'll only improve at starting things.
What looks like talent is often dedication and repetition. Assuming someone is naturally good at something dismisses the time and effort they put into it, and excuses you not to even try.
2) You don't have to turn everything you do into a product or a profession, you can just enjoy the act. Sing off-key and paint like a child, F-rank a video game, write terrible poetry.
'Amateur' isn't an insult, it comes from the Latin word for lover (amator). An amateur does something because they want to, and that's reason enough.
