VQ: What does "intelligent self-direction" mean to you?

What "intelligent self-direction" means to me is that we as students and human beings need to find our own method and path in life to learn new things. We should find ways to eventually teach ourselves once we get through high school, college, etc. Otherwise if just follow what others tell us to do, we will be boring and have no creativity in our life. And who know, if we find a new creative method to learn, other people might find that path intersting too and would want to take the same path. I learned in life that there is no one successful way of learning and that we all eventually learn things even if it means you have to learn it painfully or smoothly. Even people with no "education" learn things in their own way. That's because they found that path that teaches them. Once we go through "intelligent self-direction" we eventually learn about ourselves and all the things that interest us.