There are ways of thinking that are more customary, and many of those are more in keeping with how we have evolved to think (generally with action immediately at hand).

When you diverge from how thinking is usually done and how our brains are evolved to do it, expect some turbulence. The flow will not be entirely laminar. There will be wrinkles and crinkles and jags and eddies verging into cyclones and other structures you don't recognize at all.

This may seem, to others, even to you, as unnatural and therefore automatically faulty.

Don't fall for that. Thinking has no prerequisite as orderly and normal and sightly.

When you've learned some area "well enough," you'll find efficient ways to keep lucid track of your path and "show your work" (for others or your later self). This is excellent news, but try not to assume that laminar flow is the *only* way or even always the *best* way.