Go to the touch or obey others?

I read today the article “Secrets of Success” . I wanted to answer it in the comments first, but decided to post it as a separate post.

Someone else's experience is a good guideline that helps not to waste time and effort on nothing, but often at the same time limiting our capabilities.

Here is a small metaphor explaining my idea:

Imagine a blind man standing in front of a skyscraper in one of the rooms of which he will find something incredible. He enters the first room, where there is a door through which he needs to go in order to continue on his way. To find her, he starts to touch along the wall until he finally finds this door.

Depending on his luck, he will choose the right or wrong initial direction of his movement. It will depend on how quickly he finds his door. He can do this either at random or by asking the advice of those who have already been in this room and know where the door is. They can say that she is immediately left 10 steps from the entrance. Then he will find it much faster than if he had gone at random to the right.

But asking others, he relies entirely on their correctness - maybe his brother-in-law is not the one on the left, but the one on the far right. Obeying someone else's advice, he probably will never find his door.

However, there may be another situation - to the room in which he needs to get in the end, you need to go through not one door, but through hundreds of doors. If he searches each of them blindly to the touch, his life is simply not enough to go his own way to the end.

The only way out in this case is to find exactly those people who know exactly what doors you need to go through and where they are. But it may be that YOUR path is so unique that there are simply no such people, and all the advice will only knock you down.

What to choose? Only you decide ...