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Assuming that you can cook well enough that your meals are guaranteed to be edible, which is assuming a lot for novices.
The biggest factor to success when starting out is your ability to follow instructions.
Pick a recipe, read through it, buy all the ingredients, and follow the instructions.
It's not that hard. The reason people struggle is because they ignore the instructions like a dad in the 80's
Cooking instructions don't mesh well with some people. I'm one of them.
Half of the time the instructions are vague (like "golden brown", which has vastly different definitions based on what you're cooking) and the measurements are often inexact ("to taste" is completely useless to someone who doesn't know how the intermediate product is supposed to taste). Plus, you often have to do things during the heating process and if your multitasking isn't good enough your meal is ruined.
All of this is less of a deal if you have someone with cooking experience in the kitchen. If you don't, well, good luck.
I consider cooking to be highly stressful even with a recipe. Baking is much better since the measurements tend to be precise to the gram and the heating step happens in isolation.
Good point. Some meals are pretty hard to mess up, though. Beans, rice, stews.