“When you realize that you're going down the wrong path in life, how do you reverse course even though you don't fully know how to find the right path?”

Another soul answered...

You cannot reverse course. You cannot change your past or where you are in the present. There is only a forward path in life, a series of decisions. Realize that “reversing course” is not going backwards along the path you are on, but changing policy and criteria for the decisions you make in the future. Determine your bedrock principles, figure out where you want to go, who to be, craft a policy that will take you down the paths you wish to follow toward your goals in accord with your principles, adapt the policy to new information and the changes that occur or that you foresee, and make the decisions that accord with your policy and principles. If there are things in your life that make those decisions more difficult, remove or reduce their influence in your life.

Another soul answered...

there is no right path. it's more fun to try something nobody else ever has.