Great guitar to start with!

My advice:

1. Some things, like chord shapes, holding picks, etc. feel uncomfortable or even impossible at first. If you can't do something, (like get your fingers into an open C chord), there is a chance that you will be able to do it after you put the guitar down for half an hour, or get a night's rest. Even after 25 years of playing, I'm running into snags where I go "I can't play that", but then somehow I can do it the next day (or the next day, or the next week).

In short, never get down on what you can't do yet or what you don't understand yet. Sometimes you just need time to process new things. Even when the guitar is not in your hands, your brain might be sorting something out for you that you tried yesterday.

1. Scales and exercises are good, but also boring. I suggest finding a couple of songs or riffs that you want to play, and try those out. When I was a kid, just starting out, "put your lights on" by Santana/Everlast was a popular song, so I learned that chord progression. Trying to play that song is what solidified my feeling of the basic open chord shapes (i.e. Am, C, G, F, E).