First timers tend to be leery of working with bread dough.
Only experience can tell you when you've added enough flour or kneaded the dough a sufficient amount of time. Indeed as one kneads, a peaceful calm take over. That is when I take out my crockery bowl, my jar of yeast, and concentrate for awhile on the basics of life. And when I've produced an attractive, hand-wrought loaf with superior flavor and texture, I am so proud of my endeavor that my petty gripes seem just that, petty. While we think of water as being tasteless, actually it's not.