One has to love the process, the subject being learned to get it all to work well together. If you don't enjoy train trips, you walk, drive, ride a horse, or take a plane instead! Everyone is going from point A to point B but where those points are are individually determined. However, the time to get from one place to another can't be hurried more than is physically possible; I live near Baltimore, Maryland and it is nearly impossible (I don't really know) to take an airplane to Washington, D.C. so wishing I could does not really get me anything?

It sounds like you are wasting energy wishing you could go "faster" learning something instead of making sure it is what you want to learn. Just because most people take a car between Baltimore and Washington does not mean I could not go by boat (I live on the water :-) Yes, it would take me much longer but if I was into boating, that's probably what I would try to do. But it sounds like you are just into checking off "Washington" on your checklist? But what are you going to be doing in Washington? Why do you want to go there instead of Philadelphia, New York City, or Phoenix?

Everything in your life should be personal; it's your life! And, being personal, it should all be about you and enjoyable to you in some fashion.