I think the phrase “Do the weirdest thing that feels right” just doesn’t catch the meaning they’re trying to explain[2].

I thought of a couple of alternatives, but can you think of a sentence that captures the sense better, or a metaphor[1], or an existing concept (perhaps in another language)?

[1] e.g. the road less travelled - although that particular phrase has always bothered me because it doesn’t imply roaming over fields or bush bashing through jungles, but instead just following the routes of others which is kind of self-defeating. A road is definitely not what I am looking for here (alternatively, some metaphorical popular roads are fabulous).

[2] a good blogpost on a personal discovery is hard to write - how do you reproduce that epiphany in someone else through writing? Couple of good topics there for a blogpost!

(Edited for clarity)