If the world is small enough, you may also have seen the quote from Teller (of Penn & Teller fame) which goes: “You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would be willing to invest”

Jacob Kaplan-Moss says the same applies to life: you will seem like a magician if you just embrace the grind and do the tedious work—the work that needs to be done but that no one is willing to do.