Realize that this behavior is just fancy procrastination. I can collect recipes all day, but it won't make me a better cook.
Reminds me of the quote "Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present." ― John Green, Looking for Alaska