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I'm glad to hear I'm not alone with the "getting stuck on stupid stuff" thing!
My favorite brand of wasted effort is when I'm reading a technical text, the text says something that I feel doesn't make sense, I spend half an hour backtracking and trying to figure it out, until I finally move on - and realize that if I had just kept reading, they would have explained it in the very next paragraph. Anyone else do that?
This is why I read through at least the whole chapter first, and mark paragraphs I don't understand along the way. Annoyingly often paragraphs are just poorly written, and make sense only when you've learned the whole concept elsewhere.