CameronJ - You said:
"One more question, Livingsuccess." But you never did ask a clear question. I could take a swing at what I think you need to hear from what you have said, though.
Your key problem is still resistance - to yourself, to the materials, to the process. You are doing the right things, but you are also cancelling out your efforts through your inner resistance and learning "emotional detachment" which you seem to have noticed and you are seeing improvements here. Keep on with this ongoing development process.
By all means you should use the Genius Code program as much as you like - I think it is a great program and it could only help.
I would further suggest that you branch out your reading well beyond the prescribed reading of your teachers. If you are reading AP History textbooks, go to the library and pick up 5 to 10 books on related history topics. Pick up some biographies of some of the main players of your topic area. Photoread them all as a syntopic reading. This will give your mind lots of data for making broad and abstract connections within your mental web of knowledge. If you do this and keep at it, you soon will surpass the knowledge of most of your teachers. 
Just make sure to stay humble when you do. This is especially true in college, where the teachers are often just a few steps ahead of the students with the material.
