A friend of mine is a sports reporter, and I remember him telling me about what happened to bicycle great Greg LaMond after he won the Tour de France. There are so many demands on me by the news media and sponsors, and there's so many pressing business matters. Long before he was a champion, LaMond was doing what he loved, racing bicycles. He'd train on the steep highway from Carson City, Nev., to Lake Tahoe, and everybody would leave him alone to train. The only thing he fought was fatigue.
Success changes everyone who experiences it.
A simple idea that succeeds forces us to become someone we may not have wanted to become. A writer who starts off to publish a newspaper as a hobby watches as it succeeds beyond his wildest dreams and then finds himself fighting to not become turned into a full-time businessman. Ernie Pyle became a commodity to the publishers whose papers his column helped sell. At age 34, before he went off to war, Pyle was worn out. His writing was stale, and he wondered if he was washed up.