There's a bit of a saying: if something's hard, break it down into smaller, manageable pieces. One step at a time sort of thing, doing it bit by bit. Makes sense. Logical. And that kind of thing.
It's like if you go to climb Mt Everest. You can't do it all at once. You go to base camp, then camp 1. Back to base camp, camp 1, camp 2, camp 1, base camp. Etc etc. It's a very long process, that takes a couple of months (I think) to do properly. And if you don't your body doesn't cope.
Though it is always important to keep the big picture in mind as well. Otherwise, though you may do a task well, it may not fit in with the overarching scheme of things. So it's good to be able to both focus in on the details and see the bigger picture.
This can also help a lot if you have no idea how to do something - just breaking it down into its smaller parts. And keep breaking it down, breakin it down - until it's at the simplest level it can be, pretty much. And then, not a problem.
I completely agree with you! The same goes with studying, if you can't manage to learn the whole poem/composition/text/whatever it's good to try to learn in by paragraphs. And finally you'll learn how to do the whole thing from the first time :)
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