Recipes are just someone else’s experiments that worked. Start writing your own.

Every set of instructions was once somebody guessing. They tried it, it failed, they adjusted the heat or the ratio, and eventually wrote down the version that worked, so what reaches you as authority started as trial and error. Following it is a sensible way to learn. Treating it as the only permitted version is where it stops being useful.

Make something exactly as written once, so you know the baseline. Then change one thing on purpose and see what happens, whether that is a dish, a training plan or the way you study. Write down what you did, because that is the moment your own version starts.