world-changing innovation does not come from a miraculous night when you are struck by a voice from heaven and turned into a genius. At least not for most people. It comes from consistent hard work and numerous failures, day in day out, that people don't notice (or refuse to take seriously), for a long long time. Till finally you got enough momentum to make visible impact, they line up against you, trying to crush you and restore the status quo.
We all know this too well. Truthful visionaries punished just because they're too ahead of their contemporaries.
There's something more dangerous: you quit long before your stuff is visible enough to challenge the status quo, even when it's rotten. You gave up on your calling and you are not aware of it.
Your success is built piece by piece, it depends on years of consistent hard work.
So are your opponents'.
Everyday they try to convert you. Piece by piece, signal by signal, through words and actions and design, implicitly or explicitly, everything in the system is just so conveniently organized, so they can show your efforts are stupid and worthless and you're all alone. It's not violent, it doesn't make headlines, it never stirs the public's emotions. It's a war in silence.
And it's way more dangerous. Beware.
When they attempts something radical and inhuman to trump your challenge to the status quo, it means they failed to convert you. You won the first battle, the most crucial one.
Now March On.
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