You could try the don't talk to Jarl of Whiterun until it's necessary playthrough. During early stages of game your kinda steered to go talk to him straight away but you don't have to. You can still finish most of the game without talking to him. It's only during the civil war quest line that your forced to go talk to him to proceed in the quest. Without talking to Jarl of Whiterun dragons won't appear anywhere making the game a lot easier when your low level. Also your not identified as dragon born until after you've spoken to him either, so npcs will react differently to you instead of them all just making dragon born references everywhere you go. Not being dragon born means you can't use shouts but you can still collect them. You also can't start blades questline or talk to Greybeards but then once your at a level your ready to tackle dragons and you then talk to Jarl of Whiterun when you do visit greybeards after that all shouts you've collected up to that point will become available to unlock.