It hasn't been heard of success without learning, you can't earn without learning, a teachable character, openness to learning and commitment to being mentored will help accelerate your success as well as give you higher earning potential.
A lot of us start up the process of learning, of been mentored by those who are in possession of better understanding of what we intend to venture into, those who are better experienced, but we are lead astray by the euphoria of what we earn in the present, we are concerned about just the immediate profits and gains, never thinking of what potential the future holds, as a result of our greed we break out, we put personal interest above what can be achieved at a faster pace through team work, we take the long lone road to finding success, our journey to our desired Eldorado becomes decelerated as a result of our own efforts.
The truth is a mentor will never directly teach you all that is to be known, most of these things you have to stick around much longer to learn them, some knowledge and information required to be successful can not be expressed verbally, they could exist through body languages, they could be found in facial expressions, particular and nonconventional approach to solving problems, they could even exist in expressed temperaments, how do you learn this if you do not stick around for a long time to learn.
The quest to be independent should not put you to taking the wrong and slow pace to been successful, patience remains the key, put your personal interest aside and focus more on being successful with the team, I have never met or heard of a man who had attained success on his own, their success was as a result of the success of their team,there is no self made individual, build a teachable character today, open your mind to learning new things, because only through this approach will you achieve much more with ease and over a relatively short period of time.