Faulty tools lead to repeated failures in life choices.

Evidence

Sometimes, when people have a low opinion of their own worth—or, perhaps, when they refuse responsibility for their lives—they choose a new acquaintance, of precisely the type who proved troublesome in the past. … People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand. Faulty tools produce faulty results. Repeated use of the same faulty tools produces the same faulty results. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 300

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 300
• XREF: connects to: Bad luck can lead to cascading failures in rural life. — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 243; Small tool failures can cascade into wholesale life questioning. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 237; Tool breakdowns reveal the world’s stubbornness and our disorientation. (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Bad luck can lead to cascading failures in rural life. #corroborates (0.75) — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 243