Regarding everything, a common mistake people make is when they think of something, they want to carry it out immediately. 

There is an old Chinese idiom "雷厉风行"， but there should be a prerequsit, a plan is well planned.

"凡事预则立，不预则废", this idiom tells us to make a good plan.

Cooking is the same, indeed, we can just find some cooking receipes, and follow the steps, but the plan is made by others, and it is easy to miss steps when you are conducting the plan.

The best way to follow the receipes is to read through first, and prepare things ready, the fewer you do in the process, the less likely you are going to fail. Sumarizing is always the most correct theory.