Bootstrapping an idea alone can be frustrating.
This is coming from someone who does his best work alone. No emotional overhead, no noise. Just focus. But in that silence, doubts get louder. You burn alone, win alone. Even when you are efficient in teams, there is still that pull back to solitude.
Not a habit. More of a reflex to stimuli.
What strengthens us can also limit us. Doing things alone builds resilience, independence, and the ability to see things through, even when we suspect it might not work out. But it can also build invisible walls.
Over time, it becomes easy to drift away from people, from support, from the outside world. Especially when we are naturally introverted, or have learned from experience to rely only on ourselves. Once bitten, twice shy.
But working alone is not the same as being isolated. Independence is not the same as emotional self-exile. It is human to feel frustrated when you are carrying everything alone. That is not weakness, it is awareness.