thoughts on craft

I fail craft. i fail to meet the restrictions and expectations of craft. I don't understand how to construct something a linear fashion. I can, but it is confusing process to assemble parts and put them together. it a lot easier to disassemble a whole and look how the parts came together. I can't figure how to make a bowl. I understand the process of centering and and shaping, pushing and pulling but i am missing an element of understanding. I can't understand how that form then becomes a bowl, a thing with an implied function and structure and a name.