Winners are obligated to keep on winning. His/her followers will not tolerate anything less, and will forget all of the winner’s previous successes in the face of a recent failure. Your followers will feel betrayal for having believed in you in the first place.
Most ambitious people fear obscurity, and the impatient want fame as soon as possible. But consider this: obscurity gives you the space needed to make mistakes and learn. You may hate the initial years where you drudge through your work and training without receiving any recognition. But these frustrating years can represent the time where you have the most freedom and learn the most. Once you do enter the public gaze of your chosen field, you have years of experience that prepare you to deal with the pressures of expectation.
Sermons on strategy 