Think about the following Zen koan:

"If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him."

One interpretation of this koan is that, if you think you have in your mind a concrete ideal of "perfection," you should kill that notion, because there is no such thing as perfection.

The most important thing you can do is try, fail, and understand why you failed. No expert can give you anything that will substitute for that experience; and too much education and reliance leads to resentment. And incidentally, failing a lot will tell you how much you love software.