Making you a name, is a slow process from years to decades. You need long-term, consistent hard work to build your records and the world needs years to scrutinize to be convinced by your records. Eventually, your diligence will pay off. Even in the worst scenario that your effort is not appreciated by others at all, the time and experience you gained in the process is the most important reword to expect. Really you don’t need to worry about this scenario.
Diligence is the only short-cut, if it exists, to make your accomplishments. It sounds counter-intuitive, but Rome was not built in one day and it was made brick by brick.
Personal diligence is always appreciated by the world in a certain form. It is even appreciated by the people not in your own field, by the people who do not even know you. Why? Because people know clearly although subconsciously, that a better world can rely only on diligent people. Carry a vision, which does not need to be definitively clear, and work hard. You will not fail you and the world knows it.
—Negentropist.Z