Oneself is still an enemy of success, want thing we human want is for it to just happen fast . While deep down we know that we just need to be persistent in a we do, most people alway mussed it there. Where you are complaining that is too hard , due to laziness and lack of persistence another person at their thanking God for making he or she to come across that same thing . For instance let me use something that is common to us all here. Which is this forum, as alot of new users kept coming or registering in this forum that how alot new users are also giving up, because they just want to rankup pretty fast without having the thought that if they put their mind in it and being persistent with it their account would eventually ranked up . Because when you being persistent you would be able to learn more and same time having some good understanding and you will be able to Impact on others. And thus persistent doesn't applied to the forum alone but your regular life.
I adopt the structure of how you viewed this scenero. Indeed oneself can actually be a responsible for it setback from moving forward of achieving great things of success.
There's that usual saying that it's easier to say than to be done. That's to say some persons are likely to portray that mental case of power in the tongue without putting a practical actions towards it.
Lets look at that childish saying during our kid days that when you keep mocking at someone, you're probably going to be like them and for that some of us as childish has also taken it serious mocking those who they admires their reputations and influence to the society hoping that the mockery resultant would turn around them as as karma.
That's just how timid some of us could be in believing that we could make a different when we never took different perspectives.
Let's take those of us who had asked our love ones to invest in the bitcoin for instance, obviously they know how good you may be doing in the industry and seems to admire your worth a lot but yet they'd keep up with one excuses to the other on what's holding them back from investing in the bitcoin and whenever they knows that the bitcoin price has come up where investors could make lot of profits out of it, they began to regret their excuses and kicking to invest when the market goes DIP and even at the DIP they tends to fume themselves with another excuses While time goes by and waiting for no one.
So this is just how we too could become blockage to