Can you buy success with money though? I always looked at the lottery as VC or angel funding without payback to stop bootstrapping my ideas. The main problem with the authors reference story is that the man stopped living life, stopped working, went public with his winnings and did not follow through on his plans.
Our genes (via our brains) drive us to succeed. But why should we listen to our stupid mammalian brains? Maybe the Buddhists have it right after all, and the best goal is to transcend desiring.
