Beat your own path

You beat your own path. No one else can walk it for you. You must bear the responsibility. You cannot expect anyone to know you better than you do, so you are the best (and only) person qualified to determine your particular way.

Liken the journey to learn another language to a journey, from wherever you happen to be now to anywhere else in the world.

We all start from a different place. We've each got different guidebooks, maps, gear, resources. We've got different destinations too; our intentions for our new language are not the same.

And so although we can get, and benefit from, other people's advice, it is general. It can only be rough and ready for us, no matter how precisely it was given.

We may share parts of the trip with other people, and even parallel much, or even most, of what others do, and yet the journey must be individual.