going one's own way

Verb

go one's own way (third-person singular simple present goes one's own way, present participle going one's own way, simple past went one's own way, past participle gone one's own way)

1. (idiomatic) To act on one's own or according to one's own wishes, without regard of the advice of others.
   • Why should she say, like a parrot, what her governess told her to, when there were birds and beasts and creeping things outside to study, and a library inside full of things really worth learning? So she went her own way, growing wistful and more lonely, and every day her big eyes grew wiser and...1907, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Bruce Rogers, The Princess Pourquoi, Mifflin & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 12