What helped me was a lot of reading about hearing thresholds, and more about the psychoacoustics side, rather than the electronics side. Once I got a more realistic view of what we can hear, may hear, will never hear...it took all the fear of what I might be missing out on out of it.
Same thing with learning about Nyquist-Shannon... It's not intuitive, but once I got it, I stopped stressing about about sample rates...
This site is a hot knife through the bullshit butter...
Have you seen
@RayDunzl 's shout-o-meter?
I think that may have been where a few lights came on for me...