A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.
If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.