The Success Syndrome
Mk 10:17-31
Illustration
by King Duncan

Harvard Medical School psychologist Steven Berglas wrote a book called The Success Syndrome. He found that individuals who in his word "suffer" from success have arrogance and a sense of aloneness. People like this say that when their was $100,000, they hungered for $200,000, and when they made $1 million, they hungered for $3 million. Berglas says that oddly enough people who find that $200,000 did not make them happy never asked themselves why they thought $300,000 would make them happy. Asked to prescribe a cure for the success syndrome, Berglas said, "What's missing in these people is a deep commitment or religious activity that goes far beyond just writing a check to a charity."

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