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The Thirty major causes of Failure

Failure is the first step towards success. But why only 1% of the people achieve success and the rest of them get failed. So , here I am gonna present you thirty major causes of failure. This is taken from a book named “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill. I am currently reading this book and it’s really a very good book.


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As you go over the list , check yourself by it , point by point , for the purpose of discovering how many of these causes of failure stand between you and success.


  1. Unfavourable Heredity Background 
  2. Lack of well defined purpose in life
  3. Lack of ambition to aim above mediocrity 
  4. Insufficient education 
  5. Lack of self discipline 
  6. Ill health 
  7. Unfavourable environmental influences during childhood 
  8. Procrastination 
  9. Lack of persistence 
  10. Negative personality 
  11. Lack of uncontrolled sexual urge
  12. Uncontrolled desire for “Something for Nothing”
  13. Lack of well defined power of decision
  14. One or more of the six basic fears
  15. Wrong selection of mate in marriage.
  16. Over caution
  17. Wrong selection of associates in business 
  18. Superstition and prejudice 
  19. Wrong selection of a vocation 
  20. Lack of concentration of effort
  21. The habit of indiscriminate spending
  22. Lack of enthusiasm 
  23. Intolerance
  24. Intemperance 
  25. Inability to cooperate with others
  26. Possession of power that was not acquired through self effort
  27. Intentional dishonest 
  28. Egotism and vanity
  29. Guessing instead of thinking
  30. Lack of capital
I hope that it helped you to recognise your weaknesses. Now you can work on some specific things and eliminate all your weaknesses. You should keep recalling this in your mind and try to become better than yesterday. 

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