"Success can make people unlearn the habits that made them successful in the first place."
And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.
称为颜子，没有不高兴的，虽颜回贫贱短寿。称人为盗跖，没有不发怒的，虽发不义之财且长期寿。