Are You Not Doing Well?

I had a friend at one point who was a very bitter person, and he had a bunch of problems. He could only take relatively low level jobs, you know, like he had some mechanical ability. And so he was bitter too, because he hadn't educated himself to the level that his intellect would have demanded. So he had to take jobs that were beneath him intellectually. It means the hint, because god is suggesting that if you were doing it properly, you would be successful. The first thing you might think is, you're not doing well. What does that mean? You're not doing good. Does that not mean you're not acting properly?