Your analysis is correct in some ways @lordless.exile as being clear about what we want and following it up with determination will ultimately get us what we want.
But you didn't cover what happens to the people that don't get distracted and actually get what they want over and over again.
- The people that get what they want over and over again via Faith will eventually want nothing.
I got what I wanted over and over again for over 20 years and I am starting to want nothing. I also realized that I am nothing and that everything else is nothing too 👍🏼
It seems like you want to want nothing. But, someone who wants nothing has no reason to write a comment. And even if you had all that you had wished for, would you not then wish for things to stay as they are?
Perhaps it is possible to have entirely no wants. But, I question whether someone who wants nothing is still someone. Even if your wants are what would typically be labelled as selfless, they are still selfish in the sense that you want them because you want others to be happier because that would make you happier. Perhaps, if you had entirely no sense of identity, then you would have no wants at all - but that doesn't sound like a life to me, nor like something that would be at all useful for others.