This is certainly one extreme way to organize your life. If I had to pick what I think is the most important of the reasons that this isn't going to work for m

This is certainly one extreme way to organize your life. If I had to pick what I think is the most important of the reasons that this isn't going to work for most people, it's probably that most people live their lives in a certain default rhythm and with a certain default temperament. Win the lottery? Experience a tragedy? After a few months or years you'll return to your baseline. Most successful and well established life advice seems to try to help one methodically improve that baseline, little by little. I don't think whiplashing back and forth between extremes is going to be very sustainable for most people.