I enjoy watching Mark Knopfler talk about playing guitar. Somewhere I heard him describe it as 'making your fingers go where they don't want to go." Here's an example.
I don't think my memory is nearly as good as it used to be. Repetition is the sledgehammer to overcome that, and it's more of a battle than I expected. Right now I'm working on "Bitter Creek" by the Eagles and it really comes alive if you find a lesson that teaches it with the right chords in the original Double Drop D tuning (the 1st and 6th strings dropped a full step from E to D). I'm using this guy's lesson:
https://www.jerrysguitarbar.com/guitar-video-lessons/individual-songs/eagles-bitter-creek/
Soon I'm going to work on this version of "Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode. This guy's lesson format is outstanding: