Sometimes the person holding the map is the reason you keep getting lost.

Sometimes the guidance itself is the problem. The person you keep consulting, whose framework you keep using, may be leading you consistently astray while you assume the fault is in your following. Long-trusted sources get exempted from evaluation precisely because they are long-trusted.

If you keep ending up somewhere you did not want to be, examine whose advice or framework you have been using. Try deciding one thing without consulting that source. Notice whether the outcome is different.