Exactly!! Ample amount of patience is required to survive on this chain. And when I say survive here I mean to reach your goals. The only way I see that newbies can have such patience is if they are properly nurtured into the system before getting started because they can sense the results in someone they look up to.
Result makes persuasion easy. A big result is equal to more credibility. It's as simple as that but not easy to attain.