self-directed

The energy which issues in growth, or assimilates knowledge, must originate in self and be self-directed.

They were not organized, self-directed, self-controlled personalities in the way that Miriam Finch was.

He had gone self-directed, or, rather, in the blind manner of an object obeying the law of gravity.

At college his industry was still of the same vagrant self-directed description that it had hitherto been.

Personality is founded upon self-consciousness, with self-governed intelligence and self-directed action.