Ray Dalio stated in his best-selling book, “Principles”, that he isn't one who liked to take instructions: “I’ve always had a bad rote memory and didn’t like following other people’s instructions, but I loved figuring out how things work for myself.” This is quite admirable, if you ask me.

While this may sound odd to the average or less mind, it is the beauty of a truly innovative and self-inclined mind that is inspired from within to mine the mine that is their mind. Anyone who is driven to succeed on their own terms does one thing: find their way themselves even at the cost of many mistakes and through rising and falling. They walk the path of the authentic.