What is the way to get rid of the devil's whispers of failure and the insignificance of work? Is combining the memorization of the Quran and Hadith with studying in a co-educational school a good thing, or should other books be read?

Weakness, love of the world, dislike of death, apathy, wasting time, incapacity and laziness, heedlessness, procrastination and wishful thinking, befriending people of low aspirations, passionate love, deviance in understanding creed, becoming absorbed in observing the rights of family and children, destructive educational curricula, and successive calamities—all are causes for the decline of aspirations.

Every soul inclines towards what suits it and resembles it. Noble souls are not content except with the highest and best, while lowly souls hover around baseness.