Deadlocked

People said one learns from the successful. One cannot learn much from the failures except to know what not to do, and to reject their creed and methods. TDM said certainly one should not learn how to be successful from cheats, from liars, from people who are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands through their incompetence and willingness to lie. In my case and many cases in bureaucratic offices we should learn from the successful but not with someone who have agenda to raise his position and topple others. An adviser or here so called direction-marker should guide the right way to reach the light but not to crumple the route. It would seem however that there are plenty of advices but at the same time there are no way out.