"Many people labor in life under the impression that they are doing
something right, yet they may not show solid results for a long time. They
need a capacity for continuously adjourned gratification to survive a
steady diet of peer cruelty without becoming demoralized. They look like
idiots to their cousins, they look like idiots to their peers, they need
courage to continue. No confirmation comes to them, no validation, no
fawning students, no Nobel, no Shnobel. "How was your year?" brings
them a small but containable spasm of pain deep inside, since almost all of
their years will seem wasted to someone looking at their life from the outside.
Then bang, the lumpy event comes that brings the grand vindication.
Or it may never come.
Believe me, it is tough to deal with the social consequences of the appearance
of continuous failure. We are social animals; hell is other people."
Nassim N. Taleb - The Black Swan
This is the point.
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