Some people have heard the saying “The only place success comes before work is the dictionary.” This is one of many lessons in the book Kon-Tiki, that you have to work hard in order to be successful.
When Thor Heyerdahl first had the theory that the Polynesians had sailed across the ocean on balsa rafts, nobody believed him. There was to much research on all other ways that no one wanted to say that those could be wrong. He had to keep trying different people to see who would believe him, and eventually he decided to prove it. About a year of hard work later, he finally had proof that they could float across the ocean on a balsa raft, and people could no longer turn away the theory. His hard work had paid off. It took a year and a voyage across