If you're too busy analysing what you are doing. You're not learning and not really doing anything. Paraphrasing Paul Scheele.
Do the course as taught in the course. That works. If you're trying something different and it doesn't work. Go back to basics, go back to the recipe that works.
If you want to PhotoRead in a public Library, say the chant to yourself in your head. Otherwise they kick you out of the library.
Alex