If you’re wondering how you can level yourself up and start paving your own path, I’ll give you a few bit’s of advice.
Understand that everything you think you know is not what it seems. All is perception and yours is different than mine.
To do something epic requires your ability to take some form of action before you are ready. If you let it, you can get sucked into a constant cycle of inertia. It’s better to do something, anything in the form of an action each and every day. Inertia is strong and it is accompanied by the instant gratification monkey and information overload. Before long, you’re learning so much that you are just losing it all, that is not retaining much of anything because you aren’t putting anything into practice. A good way to remedy that is to start teaching what you are learning.
Be the expert. Being an expert doesn’t mean you have to have a masters or phd. Being an expert can mean reading a chapter a head of me and then coming back and teaching me what you learned.
Start dealing with your fears. Fear of rejection. Fear of not being liked. Fear of looking like a fool. Fear of failing. Fear of ???? Just start doing the things you try to avoid that you know damn well need to be done. The reason you keep putting it off is because you are afraid and you need to own up to it and start facing it or risk a lonely long road of defeat.