You don’t really know a city until you get lost in it. Subjects work the same way.

You only learn the shape of a place by being somewhere you did not plan to be and working out where that is. Following directions teaches you the route; losing them teaches you the map. Subjects behave the same way, which is why a problem that goes off the rails teaches more than a tidy worked example.

Let yourself wander in something this week with no tutorial open. Poke at a topic, follow the odd branch, read the chapter nobody assigned. An hour of being lost is how the parts start connecting.