Observing Horizontal growth vs Vertical growth

The concept of horizontal growth vs vertical growth is regarding physical/tangible gain juxtaposed to mental/intangible gain. One of the best examples of horizontal growth is shown in some of the multimillionaire athletes and celebrities being caught up in nonsensical bufoonery while folks like my Nana (PBUH)would say " They rich enough to know better." On the contrary, having money and opportunity doesn't afford a person intelligence.We must also keep in mind that circumstances do not change people, they merely provide the time and space for a person to reveal who they were all along. So, most of the dogfightin, leg shootin, wife killin, hotel help humpin would still be taking place on some level with our stars..we just didn't cee it til they got rich, feel me?I think the idiocy we cee in some of our megastars is due to an imbalance of focus between their craft and themselves. Mastery of their craft has secured horizontal growth, however they did not invest in any vertical growth to provide guidance or purpose to their path. The elements of vertical growth are any principles or teachings that are internalized to increase a person's awareness or enlightenment. There is no set place to find these elements and no one place, book, or person has a monopoly on it. There are thousands of ways to get downtown, we all don't have to take Broad Street, ya know? A lot of us have not defined our own success, so as soon as some money rolls in we think " We made it!" and stop striving for anything more. Perfect example, Jay-Z...His passion for music is/was based on money, hence the more money he makes, the suckier his music gets. Vertical growth prompts one to establish goals of personal fulfillment which strengthen the character and reinforces one's integrity regardless of what their horizontal ambitions may be. Vertical gain always enhances the horizontal earning potential, however horizontal gain does nothing for vertical growth, unless it is lost in abundance, it seems........