>>22862880% Blind Luck
I grew up in a trailer park, my dream of success was to live in a city and work in a big office with a shirt and tie.
I did that, it was fine, got boring and expensive, so I live in a small village now instead. Very seriously i'm starting to think it would be more cost effective from an ROI perspective to move to a trailer park.
Some dreams were installed in you through advertising; conditioning even. Others are - I think - subconscious signals for things you would like to try/experience one time.
My dreams - outside of work - were to eat enough food, read good fiction books and nap whenever I wanted; because living in a precarious environment where wild work shifts and home instability prevented any of that from happening made them so much more appealing.
All this to say, bad luck getting difficult dreams and bad luck getting dealt a hand that can't achieve them; some people get luckier.
Because you can do everything right and still lose, and do everything wrong and win because someone else lost and you were in the right place at the right time.