Stealth requires great agility. One must be very cautious about how one approaches some creature that one should really avert. However, irresolution is for the timid. When a course has been decided upon, do it. Don't think about it. The time to be tremulous is when you have finished with the chore of avoidance.
In the days of communism, many Romanian and Bulgarian children, who now are among the countries' leading technologists, learned to code on replicas of Apple II and ZX Spectrum machines.