I second that. I try to teach my family that the only way to success and happiness is working for it. Success and happiness come from satisfaction with who you

I second that. I try to teach my family that the only way to success and happiness is working for it. Success and happiness come from satisfaction with who you are and that comes from knowing, on a deep level, you earned it. So not only your chance of winning a lottery is remote, even if you somehow win a lottery it is unlikely to make you happy. Interviews of people who won a lottery show it. I also think people have very distorted perception of where success comes from. People think it is a matter of chance and luck that somebody made this or that decision at a particular point in time. But my understanding is that luck only plays small part of it, much bigger part is the preparation to increase your luck and to be able to risk it and to be able to make something with it and to be able to avoid bad luck. All that comes from usually hard work and a certain mindset of being honest with yourself rather than playing a victim on every possible occasion. I have never heard about a person who would be constantly complaining about their bad luck and then got successful.