I couldn't agree more with this post. I exhaust myself big time with composites and I need to move away from that because otherwise I am never going to get to the level I want just because I don't have the time to really do so. I only really do that to develop a fundamental background in understanding but it is extremely, extremely time consuming. But I think over the years I've developed enough knowledge/understanding that I don't need to do this anymore but If I knew how to program/code this could be done in a way more productive manner.
But I try too much to break things down so much and try to get as close to a linear correlation as possible which is stupid because when it comes down to it, there really is no or are no linear correlations. And this is what makes the science so difficult. As humans, we are equip to understand/handle linear correlations pretty easily, but getting outside of linear correlations and we struggle...its a skill that can be taught but the path is difficult.