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In 2014 a past hedge fund trader's New York Times Sunday Review front-page article about wealth addiction instantly travelled viral. That is his unflinching memoir about approaching old on Wall Streets, fighting to defeat the spirits of his earlier - and the radical new way he now defines success. At just 30 years old, Sam Polk was a senior trader for just one of the biggest hedge money on Wall Streets, on the verge of which makes it to the very top. When he was offered an total annual reward of $3.75 million, he grew angry because it had not been enough. For the reason that moment he recognized he had lost himself in his obsessive quest for money. And he had come to loathe the culture - the shallowness, the sexism, the crude machismo - and Wall structure Street's use of wealth as the sole measure of someone's worth. He decided to leave from everything. For Polk, learning to be a Wall Street trader have been the fulfillment of his dreams. However in reality it was just the culmination of a life of addictive and self-destructive behaviours, from overeating to bulimia to alcoholic beverages and drug abuse. His obsessive quest for money papered over years of insecurity and mental abuse. Earning money was just the latest attempt to fill up the void left by his narcissistic and emotionally unavailable daddy. As Michael Lewis do in Liar's Texas holdem, Polk brings listeners into the rarefied world of Wall structure Street trading flooring surfaces, capturing the present day frustrations of young graduates attracted to Wall Street. Raw, vivid, and greatly listenable, For the Love of Money explores the beginning of a hedge fund trader, his disillusionment, and the radical new way he has come to explain success.
