A recipe is a suggestion. The seasoning is where you show up.

Instructions get you to a safe result, and they are written to work for everyone, which means they were not written for you. The structure is borrowed. The small adjustments are the part that is actually yours, and they only come from paying attention while you work.

Whatever you are following right now, a template, a plan, a way someone else did it, do the steps and then ask what one thing you would change. Maybe you like more heat, more space, a slower start. Make that change on purpose rather than by accident, and remember what happened. Taste gets built that way.