A strong will is needed to do research in the dark, you are going to sacrifice a lot and as an outsider you will almost always be looked down, very often rightl

A strong will is needed to do research in the dark, you are going to sacrifice a lot and as an outsider you will almost always be looked down, very often rightly so (because you miss the day-to-day peer review that at the very least avoids you methodological or execution mistakes).