Should we expect too much from successful people?

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(Disclaimer: I don't claim to have all the answers. This post is simply an attempt to explore a question that has been on my mind recently. Some of my observations may be incomplete or even incorrect, so I'd genuinely appreciate hearing different perspectives. Please feel free to disagree respectfully.)

When people expect great things from someone, it usually means they believe in that person's abilities. But sometimes, those expectations become too high that they forget fact:after all they are normal human, they still make mistake,failed.Elon Musk once said: we still wrong in some degree so our goal is to decrease it, and he doesn't said anyone perfect, and in 1 of the Evan's video he tell the story is when he trying to improve the product but not sell it yet so that make he lost 40M USD

So that I ask myself a question: why before people success we don't expect much but after that we expect so much like put them on a pedestal and expect them to be perfect

I think these are the reason:

-when they success do something big, people will expect them to do something bigger

-they think they can't do because they think they are normal and expect success people do

And it cause a lot of troubles:

expect a lot may make success people feel a lot of pressure and it can easier to fail

when success people fail ,a lot of people angry and the people anger is mostly is fan,friends,... it make you maybe like can't sleep, bad mental health

i'm not say expect is bad at all but don't expect too much, when you see they fail or make mistakes, don't be too surprise or angry .Are there any more reason or consequence?.

I like the sentence is:"smooth seas don't make skilled sailors"

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Should we expect too much from successful people?