"A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc. Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing or [permanently damaging your lungs via a COVID-19 infection] etc."
"Invert!"
Let me use a little inversion now. What will really fail in life? What do you want to avoid?
Approach how to create X by turning the question backward, that is, by studying how to create non-X."