It’s ok to be a bit impatient, to borrow your own self-declaration. Blender is exciting! It’s just that if you don’t temper that impatience with some foresight and longer-term thinking, it will be unnecessarily difficult for you to find what you’re looking for. So, don’t find it. Make it.
You’ve got the basics down, so now you can start to branch out a bit more. Here’s what I would do in your situation (your mileage may vary; this is my opinion, so feel free to take what you like and leave the rest, but a very similar approach works quite well for me):
- Come up with a project that you are highly motivated to do so that it satisfies your need for an agreeable subject matter. If it’s something of personal significance, even better - it should be something that the fire of will not burn out, even if you feel the need to scrap it and restart multiple times!
- Think carefully about your vision and define it in a lot of detail, with the goal of identifying the specific Blender abilities you will need in order to make it. You probably won’t be able to make this list 100% accurate because of the ever-present “things you don’t realize you don’t know yet,” but the point is to get as detailed a checklist as possible.
- For each checklist item:
- Research what you don’t know how to do. As you research these items and learn the associated jargon, you will very likely be able to better-define those items on the checklist; don’t hesitate to fix and expand it as you go. “How can I make a Blender model smoother? Shade smooth, yeah… smooth vertices, ok… what’s subdivision surface? Oh! Ok, something else to look up.” Just an example =)
- When you find a tutorial for something specific to cross off your list, forget entirely about the tutorial’s subject matter and evaluate its worth solely on the instructor’s ability to teach the concepts effectively, with the understanding that you are only interested in the abstract skills featured. If possible, practice it right after with a subject that’s more appealing to you, and don’t be surprised if inspiration strikes you along the way!
Eventually you will cross the entire list off, despite the inevitable scope creep that comes as you refine it, and you will have the knowledge you need to develop the skills you want. It all sounds simple, but this sort of structured approach can help you power through “boring” subjects because it provides you with a light at the end of the tunnel, and a direction to go in. Good luck =)