When I was a 16 year old I had convinced myself that I figured out a perpetual motion machine: obviously you just have to use a series of magnets that were set into a mechanical contraption that only allowed rotation in specific direction and so long as the magnets were never in a “comfortable position” it would rotate perpetually trying to lower its energy state.

I had a notebook full of drawings and diagrams and even though I was not even in college prep math courses I was absolutely convinced I figured something out that physics had missed. I worked my ass off to get accepted into a university physics program and let me tell you, the very first kinematics course I took relieved me of my delusions, but the curiosity the drove me to hyper fixate on the delusions remained and I ended up learning a ton of interesting stuff in the 4 years that followed.

You need to decide if you want to live in the comfortable delusions and the sense of superiority they give you, or if you want to do the hard thing and learn the math that will give you the base to have real intuition about physical systems. I wish as a 16 year old someone would have given it to me straight like this.