Haha...that is the most epic example of this topic. "Follow my strategy" to win the lottery. Completely ridiculous.

There are no guaranteed ways to become a millionaire. You can practice methods others have used to put yourself in a position to do well, but it does not mean it will happen.

Heck, steemit can be used as a microcosm of that. There are those that post the same type of content for the same amount of time, yet one may be doing much better than the other because they happened to check a whales attention that became a regular curater of their content.