Can you explain more what you mean by steering vs. pedaling?

To be honest I had the analogy cached from here and it seemed appropriate, but I'll try to clarify. I'm making better decisions on what I do or don't do, at what I keep doing or stop doing, at what I pay attention to or ignore, but I'm not significantly better or faster at the actual doing itself.

I think rationality will help me with that bit, indirectly, by helping me understand what the best skills are to learn for he things I want to do, and which methods work best for learning it and which are snake-oil. But at the moment, most of my learning time is going into rationality related topics because I think it's important to get those foundations first. I still have a huge amount of that to learn.