Yeah definitely important to have fundamentals in place first. Otherwise it's just a cycle of fail, fail, fail and you get zero feedback from that.

It's only really recently I've gotten to a place where I'm succeeding enough to get decent feedback on what I'm doing. Before that I was mindlessly following (some) pickup stuff and I think tbh the vibe was just weird.

What you say also reminds me of this: [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_competence[/url]

So you spot something you need to change, you consciously change it, you start to do it unconsciously, you get good at it and then you spot something else you need to change, and.... repeat.

But I think it's important to be doing stuff unconsciously well before trying anything new, otherwise you start cramming too much stuff in consciously, like me with the pickup stuff, or what kowalski mentioned above... then the vibe is just... weird.