It's possible to cargo cult your own insights.

You don't have to consciously understand a strategy you are intuitively following--especially if it's a survival strategy you've picked up over multiple rounds in a given context.

Of course, the "strategy" you are intuitively following might turn out to not be a strategy at all.

For example, you could get lucky with a thing once, and then just keep doing what you were doing.

The things you were doing might be totally unrelated to the outcome (and maybe even somewhat self-defeating!)

Sometimes the unimportant trappings of strategy that you learned by happenstance become ritual totems.

Similar to in professional sports how many top athletes have intense luck rituals.