This seems really "duh" but idk, I feel like sometimes people get really caught up in asking others vs. doing research themselves (or learning how to do research because sometimes it rlly doesn't come naturally).

I, personally, had to learn how to research things further than asking other practitioners and taking their word for it, because I realized one day that a lot of folks don't actually know what they're talking about, and I was getting incorrect information from sources that I trusted because others trusted them or because they had one good piece of information and I thought the rest of what they said was equal to that.

It was a mess.

Anyways, read books, take notes, read the "boring" things, and even pick up cringe books, and learn why the books are cringe. Learn what information within it is unhelpful/inaccurate and learn why it's up helpful or inaccurate for yourself.

Sometimes you realize part way through that you do not want what you asked for. Or the consequences will be too high. Plans change, etc.

Poorly: "When I tell you come home, stop your work as long as the spell is already on it's way to manifestation."