Reasons for Failure:

Jordan Peterson:

"one of the main reasons that people don't get what they want is because they don't actually figure out what it is."

"a huge part of the reason that people fail is because they don't ever set up the criteria for success. And so since success is a very narrow line and very unlikely the probability that you are going stumble on it randomly is zero. And so there is a proposition here and the proposition is: 'If you actually want something you can have it.' Now the question then would be: 'What do you mean by 'actually want'?' And the answer is that you reorient your life in every possible way to make the probability that that will occur as certain as possible. And that's a sacrificial idea. ... You don't get everything. ... But maybe you can have what you need. And maybe all you have to do to get it is ask. But asking isn't a whim or today's wish. ... You have to be deadly serious about it. "

[See also: On Goals and Targets, Goals and Conditions for Failure]