The real problem is that making lists is an infinitely recursive task, each entry on a list can end up becoming its own list. I will frequently spend all day making a list, instead of doing things.
Or my favorite, "here let me show you how to use a calendar."
Great, next maybe you could teach a blind kid to ride a bike.
Here's me in 6th grade, reading at a college level, learning algebra, picking up coding because it's fun, and you think the problem is that I don't conceptually get calendars?