There's something that makes a person turn that key and unlock the future by taking action. Many people never get there and end up living a life full of wishes that never get fulfilled. Then you have the others such as great inventors who fail over and over again while tweaking things along the way until they hit the target of success.

But what drives the ones who doggedly keep putting one foot in front of the other until they win the race, as opposed to others who never even step on the track?

I had a speech impediment as a child which took daily practice over a ten-year period to surmount that disability. But I wanted it bad and I was willing to put the work in to be able to simply speak normally. So I think there has to be a willingness to develop that drive to weather the storms and just keep going until you win.