In my field, I never had a mentor or anyone who knew more than I do. I’ve always had to go it alone.

This is incredibly hard, but also meant I learned a whole lot by necessity. And by bashing my head against it over and over again till I figured it out. I’ve often been in companies where unless I found the answer and acted on it, no one would. I was the last and sometimes the only stop.

That leads to a lot of painful but thorough education.

I achieved my wizard status by trying every spell with no guidance and no council or counsel.