One of Eker's most direct arguments concerns the relationship between money and the problems people associate with not having it. The conventional belief is: if I had more money, my financial problems would be solved. Eker argues this is precisely backwards. Money is a result. It is the output of a process that includes beliefs, decisions, actions, and habits. If the process is broken, more money does not fix it: it amplifies the existing pattern. Lottery winners who are bankrupt within five years are the most obvious example. The money came; the programming did not change; the programming produced the same results at a larger scale. The same mechanism explains why people who inherit money or receive windfalls so often end up in roughly the same financial position within a few years. The external change did not address the internal cause. The blueprint pulled results back to its set point. Eker's prescription follows from this diagnosis: do not chase money as if it were the solution. Work on the beliefs, habits, and relationships with money that constitute the inner game. When the inner game is right, the outer results follow and they stay. This is not a statement about positive thinking. It is a statement about causality: results are downstream of processes, and fixing results without fixing processes is temporary.