[constantcrying]

And? How is that relevant at all to anything I or the author said?

His success, as the author makes explicit, has nothing to do with his university education.

[yobbo]

The argument you started off making was that his "lack of success" was because he didn't have the desire to learn and thus wasted the opportunity.

But - he achieved some of the highest grades, so by all accounts he was successful in his education.

Much later, he understood that the contents of his education lacked intrinsic value and the only effective value it offered him was an opened "toll gate".