I'm more of a creative learner,. . . I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of that material in the introductory courses.
I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.
I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc. , but some vain thing immediately followed.
There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style.