20 Causes for Personal Failure by Napoleon Hill
by Parker · 21 things on Twos
- Drifting through life without a definite goal
- Overly curious about other people's affairs
- Inadequate education or inadequate information on your subject
- Lack of self-discipline
- Lack of ambition to aim high
- Lack of persistence in carrying through that which you have begun
- A negative mental attitude in general
- Lack of emotional control
- The desire to get something for nothing
- Failure to reach a decision promptly and definitely when all of the facts necessary for a decision are at hand
- Fear of failure
- Indiscriminate spending of time and/or money
- Lack of control over the tongue
- Having a closed mind; that is, unwilling to take advice from others
- Lack of loyalty where loyalty is due
- Lack of vision and imagination
- Egotism and vanity without control
- Having wrong motives
- A desire for revenge for real or imaginary grievances
- Unwilling to go the "extra mile"
- "The person who succeeds is the one who does more than enough and keeps on doing it."