Hi Vineeto,
I really enjoyed this post, it hits on something that I have been observing for a long time and I understand even clearer now. It’s this tendency to want to reduce actualism to a system/recipe precisely so that ‘I’ don’t have to do anything! 
It’s putting it all back to front, it’s like if I read of some things that Richard did and then construct a system out of them, and then sit back and wait for change to happen… But the primary thing that Richard did was that he devoted himself completely and obsessively to evincing that which the PCE demonstrated. So the specific things that he did were secondary in that sense, the primary thing was the commitment and the intent.
Actually this is also a thing I observed back when I was rock climbing. That there were guys like myself that were just busy with doing the rock climbing, and chipping away at building the skills and eventually reaching a competent level.
Then there were the guys that would purchase all the cool climbing gear, they would walk and talk like advanced climbers, they did all the things that good climbers did, and yet they were never competent climbers. They invested all their attention into looking like one but never had the commitment and intent to actually become one.
It’s a tendency I have observed alot, I don’t have a name for it but this is what I see described in your post.
Actually I find this fascinating because (without boring anyone with too many details) this is the current discussion which is happening in the BJJ world. Which is the question of whether the sport has evolved primarily because of the systems in place (better technique etc) or because of individuals demonstrating what is possible.
It seems that the most important thing is for somebody to demonstrate what is possible, then others will try to make systems out of what they did to get there. But those systems they are created after the fact, they are not what led to the success in the first place.
Sooo…Walking the walk is the most important, the specifics are secondary.