Most people treat guidance as dependency.
They wait to be instructed. They follow frameworks without adapting them. When progress slows, they blame the system rather than their engagement with it.
This creates a learned helplessness disguised as humility.
True intelligence is not consumption. It is utilization.
Every system you enter is raw material. Your responsibility is to extract what applies, discard what does not, and design how you operate inside it.
Authority does not come from having the right teacher.
It comes from taking responsibility for your outcomes.
This is not self-reliance as isolation.
This is self-reliance as mastery.