“Without foresight, you can work hard and have many successful failures; in simpler terms, you achieve something, but it's not the right end result you desire.”

Hard work can land you somewhere you never wanted. The result arrives, it is real, and it is not the one you were after, which is a stranger kind of failure than simply falling short. A plan aimed at nothing in particular produces plenty of these, each one paid for in full. Wanting the outcome is not the same as having pictured it clearly enough to recognise a wrong turn while there is still time to take another.