The Ego's defense mechanism

The idea of a success barrier has been mentioned in some sources.

It defines a self-imposed barrier that one cannot be too successful for fear of loss of reality.

This is especially true for celebrities who become terrified of their own success.

The ego also imposes another form of barrier to the self to impede any progress towards a goal that it believes the self should have innately achieved but yet not done so.

This is a conflict when one cannot accept that they have not reached a goal that their egos feel they should have deserved. Therefore, as they try to progress towards the goal an inevitably encounter any form of failure, they could become extraordinarily dejected and feel wronged by Mother Nature :(

In fact, it is a failure of acceptance of conditions. No right decision can be made without acceptance of the current conditions.