Someone else's experience is not my experience.
Steering by other people's experience and building your path on their advice is a big risk. You can take a wrong turn, miss the possibilities nature gave you, and never unlock your own potential.
Yes, you can and should look at other people's experience, study it, be curious about it. But only as a source of information, good and bad, the way you'd read a story. Maybe you take an idea from it, or it pushes you toward certain steps.
But walk your own path. Only your own, with faith in yourself and in what you can do.