Being different from others and accoladed for your work is as difficult as 'golly formation with a needle'. Usually when individuals fail they blame it on their lady luck. But I believe lady luck is a very altuitistic woman. Though I don`t deny that sometimes people get what they don`t deserve but there is no subsitute to hard work and shrewdness. An individual may rise high with less hard work but a hard working person will never be left behind.

Human being should never restain themselves from hope. There was a line in a famous novel by Paulo Cohelo viz. "Hope is that word that so often rises with us in the morning, is sorely wounded as the day progresses, dies at nightfall, and is reborn with the new day" . These lines are pragmatic as well as philosophical and that is the reason why I remember them always.

So rather than searching for shortcuts , one should put in everything they have and believe me the day the "hard work tree" bears fruit, they will be sweetest of all you have ever had.