How do I learn to learn?

I've been out of school for a decade and during my day job, I'm a top performer and genuinely have no problem with learning new concepts and utilizing them. I don't feel like I'm incapable of learning at all.

Until it comes to game dev. For some reason, I am almost constantly stunlocked on what I need to do in order to get the ball rolling. All I do is daydream about how good I think I'd be at it (eventually) and how much more I'd enjoy life if I dedicated myself more to this pursuit.

I think I'm looking for tips on how to do this right. Finding a place to start and drop my fucking anchor for awhile is daunting in a sea of online courses and tutorials. Endless content. I might find one I like and do a few tutorials in a series and then find out from some community of indie devs that this guy is actually not so great, and this person is better and I feel like I just keep resetting my progress over and over every few months.

Please, come into this thread and yell at me. What am I missing? How can I go about this correctly? I just need a good foothold to build off of.