Honestly the emphasis on over optimization and the idea of finding the right way of learning something has wasted me so much time and lost me countless opportunities. I'm not the average person. I need a solution that works for myself and sometimes that means the method only works for me.

The most important thing is to just start and stick with it, no matter how meaningless or small the thing you are doing is. You will jump onto something better as soon as you find it. However, if you haven't even started then you will always look for something that's even better than the best thing you already know about. i.e. you will do nothing even though your methodology or the instructional material you found is already more than good enough.