If you don't like your present address, change it, you are not a tree
Read the best you can, study the best you can, take the best notes you can and then do this - then you decide out of all of that which is valuable enough to try, valuable enough to do and add to the dimensions of your life that are already underway - that's the key for study, exercising the mind
Imagination and faith must be deposited in activity or it is wasted
Measure your own progress. Success is a numbers game