I don't know if there is like a sticky for new traders to follow. For me it might be better if there are no rigid set of protocols for them. Just go with the motions and have some fun when you are a beginner and see how it goes for you.
And maybe if you gain that experience then that is the time that you will go back in your notes and see what might be the success for you or what you have to do to improve your trading and to make money. So time and money is absolute to make more money, in my humble opinion.
That is true, people should be focusing on getting better, and there are many methods that you can use to get better as well, I believe that if you use them all and try to find out how you could get better then you are going to be doing fine. I know that it is going to take a while, but it has to be something that takes a bit of a risk, if you can take that risk then you should be fine in the end. I know that a lot of people do not take that risk and because of that they are doing poorly.
So, when you combine a bit of risk and a lot of learning together, the mixture creates a great trader eventually, the biggest problem there is that it takes a while for you to get a result that will lose you money, that is the important part.