[KVFinn]

>I thought that was his point. He's super successful but still not happy, and it seems to me like this was part of him working through that. I mean, the whole tone of the article seemed, to me, seemed to say "gee, it seems like I am pretty ungrateful, and this is a problem."

I think you might be right but he certainly could have been more clear.

Hard to differentiate "I'm so rich and successful I have problems you can't even understand. First World Problems."

vs

"What's wrong with my mentality that I can't enjoy coming in 2nd place in a race I've loved my whole life and only dreamed about competing in at a high level."

[csallen]

I think you may have read into it too much, and projected your own ideas on to what he was saying. I can't find a single sentence in which he was bragging about being rich and successful (mentioning != bragging), or asserting that there was anything we as readers can't understand.

[lsc]

Yeah... when I read it, the tone I got was the second one. It sounds like you read it as the first one.