Driving on ice. Try. Try again. You can think of the physics, but it’s the body who learns, not the mind. Try again. I see it now. Yes, I’m starting to get it. Try again. Yes. I got this.
At that point, you are on to the next level. Basic moves are internalized and new concerns become visible, available. Everything works through this type of composition. Notes, melodies, chords, chord progressions. You level up to higher levels of abstraction, integrating the lower ones as you internalize them as second nature.
There’s an arrow of development, and it’s that of assembling components into higher and higher levels, for which you need to integrate the lower ones, and only repetition does it, not thought.