The hard way
The no.1 sidetrack to failure is to think easy - and lowering your own standard - be it sentence structure, thinking patterns, finding relevancy: to get a "shortcut" so you can be "fast" & "finish the job so you don't have to think about it anymore".
The opposite can really triumph success; apply first principles; second level thinking & 3 second thoughts. To think just a little deeper and harder - is what separates the great successes and the rest.
That means apply self-thoughts too - not just plainly getting info from some other parties. Cos it's easy to get information now. It's easier to make money back then by leveraging information gap - but it's harder now as you need to apply critical thinking and lots of efforts into mental in achieving success now.