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For aspiring cricketer Ed Smith, success was for other folks. Like his child years hero, Geoff Boycott, the challenging, flinty Yorkshire man, the young Ed knew that the successful cricketer made his own success by an application of stength, elimination of error, and the relentless pursuit of excellence. But when a freak car accident prematurely ended Ed Smith's international cricketing career, it transformed everything - and prompted him to look anew at his own life through the prism of success. Tracing the annals of the ideas of success and lot of money, destiny and fate, from the traditional Greeks for this day - in religion, in bank, in politics - Ed Smith argues that the question of success versus skill is as essential today as it ever before has been.