To make a carrot cake you whisk the wet ingredients of oil, yogurt, eggs, vanilla, and zest together. Then mix the dry ingredients of flour, sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg with a good pinch of salt in a separate bowl. Before mixing the wet and dry ingredients together with the carrots, raisins, and some nuts.
If you are late to a cookery class it might be tempting to join in where they are, not where you are. But logic tells you to follow the recipe. Without the recipe, you don’t have a cake.
The opposite is true if you turn up late in the field of physical development and training.