One major cause of failure is egotism and vanity this quality servant as well like which one orders to keep away the effort to success and one other thing is intentional dishonesty.
One may be temporarily dissonant by force of circumstances over which one has no control
without permanent damage but there is no hope for the person who is dissonant by choice and also possession of power that was not acquired through self-effort power in the hands of one who did not acquire it gradually it's often fatal to success which is a model that was poverty itself.