According to Einstein, volition or free will, initiative and effort had NOTHING to do with his rise to great fame and fortune and everything that goes with it.  And I'm sure he considered his philosophy just fine for everyone.   He didn't build it. It was all luck and DNA and the usual effort and hard work that just being a person entails.  Very believable, but most people aren't ready for it. 

Here's the Protestant Calvinist version of free will.  There isn't any. If god chooses you for earthly riches and admiration and success and happiness,  you are elected .  You don't earn it. Hell,  you don't even deserve it.    it's called election.  Google Charles Portis and election for more on this subject.  Some great quotes from True Grit.

Also google Sam Harris and free will.  You might change your mind. I didn't have to.  I discovered John Calvin and Albert Einstein's philosophy against free will at about fourteen years old.  Life is unfair.  Also google JFK and life is unfair for another solid doubter of free choice