Muscleman, kudos for the honesty/independence. As long as you iterate/brutally evaluate yourself like you have done, I have no doubt that you'll succeed. Exploring different methods will only help you to detach from the process I think and there are many tools one can pick to survive in an ecosystem. See BNF/Takashi Kotegawa although supposedly his methods don't work anymore, but I doubt people could say with 100% what his methods truly were.
Although, I kind of feel that for ordinary mortals, the drive to hit it rich impedes investment results because it makes us emotional. If you want to make serious money, I would look into starting a side business instead as the odds of starting a successful one > odds of beating the market consecutively by huge margins

and having drive only helps you there.
If you want to impress people here though, you have to do it in the "value investing" way. Of course people here are going to say value investing is the best way lol. Do you go a tesla forum to ask if if there's a better car company than tesla? Their cars do look pretty cool though.