Why do you want to be a GrandMaster or World Champion of Chess?

I wrote about "Wanting to be Jesus - My 10 wrong reasons" a couple of weeks ago. You can click this link to see the whole post.

But one of the reasons was:

4. The fans/followers. I would have so many people loving and knowing me. (Related to this, there was a time I hated being introduced to people… how come they don’t know me? If I was Jesus, no introduction… or after introduction, the person would go like, I have heard a lot about you…)

I know a lot of Chess players want to be World Champion(s) or Chess GrandMaster(s) - Why do you want to be World Champion or Chess GrandMaster? Answering this question, truthfully, will tell you whether you are going to make it or not. My $0.02.