It's not a cliche to say almost everyone loses money their first time. I lost over $10,000 on some calls back in 2018 during the summer of the "Short Burn off the Century" tweet saga.
But I never gave up, I learned important things such as what the Greeks are and calculating premium and stuff like that. More than a year later, I took a chance and yeeted my first call the day after earnings.
You have to risk big to win big, and you have to be willing to lose money to make money. I'm not saying to ever do what I did, but you only need to get lucky once right? That's what Warren Buffett once said: "You don't have to do everything right. You just need to not do too many things wrong."