A friend of mine is a music producer and became an ‘overnight success’ when he handed a song to a DJ at an LA club and got signed and almost instantly was touring the world. I got to hang out after gigs while all these other big name djs were calling him a genius. The thing is he had been a bedroom producer and small time DJ for almost 15 years, though since he was 15 years old. I heard his songs even 5 years before he got signed and they were good, but not even close to the level he is now. He wasn’t a genius. It was a lot of hard work and persistence.