Every person is different and every person should choose your own path to success. No one can get success to follow any person blindly. Either a person is student of University or he is a businessman or he is Employee,he should make a daily plan and should stick to his plan. Your plan will give you success in future because when small small steps will join ,then we will get a huge success in life. Every person who got success,he or she was a consistent. Without consistency , success is not possible. Always follow your teacher but don't follow blindly and do your own research.
It is true that everyone has a different path to success and it is very unlikely that other people can copy other people's paths to success and if you choose to follow other people as an entrepreneur or employee, of course what you will achieve will certainly be different from the results of other people's achievements and indeed It would be better to have our own plan that we can carry out to achieve what we want and as you said we must be able to carry out the plan that we have made consistently.
We can make what other people achieve become a motivation for us so that we can be successful in our own way. Because it's true, there is no guarantee that when we do what other people do and bring them success it will also happen to us. So we have to have our own path, but we can see effort and hard work from other people and make it a motivation.
There is no short path to achieving success, and even if there were, it might only happen in a moment that we don't realize and it might happen because of luck. Indeed, this also requires luck, but don't let us rely on luck being greater than our efforts and hard work.
I think luck will also find a way as long as we can make efforts and work hard and never give up.