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17. Lack of Knowledge
The first step towards knowledge is awareness of areas of ignorance. The more
knowledge a person gets, the more he realizes what areas he is ignorant in. A person
who thinks he knows everything has the most to learn.
Ignorant people don't know they are ignorant. They don't know that they don't know. In
fact more than ignorance, the bigger problem is the illusion of knowledge, which can
mislead a person.
18. Fatalistic Attitude
A fatalistic attitude prevents people from accepting responsibility for their position in life.
They attribute success and failure to luck. They resign themselves to their fate. They
believe and accept the predestined future written in their horoscope or stars, that
regardless of their effort whatever has to happen will happen. Hence they never put in

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any effort and complacency becomes a way of life. They wait for things to happen rather
than make them happen. Success is a matter of luck, ask any failure.
Weak-minded people fall easy prey to fortune-tellers, horoscopes and self-proclaimed
God's men who are sometimes conmen. They become superstitious and ritualistic.
Shallow people believe in luck. People with strength and determination believe in cause
and effect. Some people consider a rabbit's foot lucky; but it wasn't lucky for the rabbit,
was it?

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