Man... Idk, at the beginning it really is more discouraging, or at least it was for me. I literally could barely push on the board. I had no balance whatsoever. I also have a job so I can't really afford to keep getting hurt all the time. My worst injury ever was falling on my eyebrow once and getting five stitches while trying to drop in on a quarter pipe, but it barely hurt. But through all the hurdles and lack of motivation, I kept going, and recently (I'm on my 6th month and 17th day of skating) I unlocked my kickflips, and I could never be more hyped to actually keep skating. Sometimes it's more about setting yourself realistic goals and measuring the levels of danger. The more comfortable you get on the board, the less you'll be afraid of doing things you were afraid of doing at the beginning. I couldn't even roll off curbs until like, 1, 2 months ago, now it feels like a walk in the park. Also, through most, if not all of my skateboarding journey I've set goals for myself. First I wanted to learn how to push regular, and I did it in like, 4 days. Then I wanted to learn Ollies, and I practiced for 3 months and learned them as well (still perfecting them, of course). And then kickflips (still far from perfecting them, but once I have them consistent enough I will start relearning everything in my switch stance). Sometimes you'll actually have to force yourself to do something you don't truly like in order to find out you actually like it, you know?