Sometimes you just need to grind in order to acquire a new skill...
Another good example is playing the piano by ear: if you look at YouTube tutorials, they kind of make sense, but if you try to apply those techniques in real life, you tend to fail miserably the first time you try it. I've been playing a bit on the piano everyday, and am now at a point where I can figure out the chords for easy songs in a couple of minutes. There was one video in particular that helped me big-time more recently, but if I had seen the video a month ago, I doubt that it would have been as helpful as it was recently. There might also be lingering some knowledge in my head from videos I watched previously but didn't grasp at the time, so I'll never know for sure.
These kind of skills are all about repetition and growing an intuition for the basics, so you can start thinking at a higher abstraction level...
(for the record: I'm at "campfire level skill": I might take another few decades before you can call me a good player, but it's good enough for having fun and the occasional gig with friends among friends a couple of times a year...)
Another good example is playing the piano by ear: if you look at YouTube tutorials, they kind of make sense, but if you try to apply those techniques in real life, you tend to fail miserably the first time you try it. I've been playing a bit on the piano everyday, and am now at a point where I can figure out the chords for easy songs in a couple of minutes. There was one video in particular that helped me big-time more recently, but if I had seen the video a month ago, I doubt that it would have been as helpful as it was recently. There might also be lingering some knowledge in my head from videos I watched previously but didn't grasp at the time, so I'll never know for sure.
These kind of skills are all about repetition and growing an intuition for the basics, so you can start thinking at a higher abstraction level...
(for the record: I'm at "campfire level skill": I might take another few decades before you can call me a good player, but it's good enough for having fun and the occasional gig with friends among friends a couple of times a year...)