Sometimes you just have to accept that it works, follow the recipe, and just use it rather than understand it.   I call it hitting the 'I believe' button.

Then an amazing thing happens; over time the more and more you use the technology or work with it, you'll come to learn how it actually works and understand it better than you ever would if just sat and tried to understand what you were doing before you started doing it.

It's a paradox, and definitely doesn't apply in many situations, but I've found certain things over the decade I've been doing this it has certainly applied to.