Imitate, that you may be different.*
Edward P. J. Corbett

Won’t you be walking in your predecessors’ footsteps. I surely will use the older path, but if I find a shorter and smoother way, I’ll blaze a trail there. The ones who pioneered these trails aren’t our masters, but our guides. Truth stands open to everyone, it hasn’t been monopolised.**
Seneca

First of all you explored the field,
Learnt the domain,
Grateful for the paths of others that have made it possible
to have a life that works for you;
Now, beyond the field, without the domain, you sense there is
more beyond the terminus – a whole world of more to be discovered,
And you hesitatingly take your first lost step.

If you are comfortable with where you are, you will never know how far you can go. If you refuse to change, then you refuse to grow.^

*Annie Murphy Paul’s The Extended Mind;
**Ryan Holiday’s The Daily Stoic;
^Erwin McManus’ The Way of the Warrior.