>>13783298This is why the actual path to this form of success is to become a mad scientist/inventor. Everything in academia and industry is a collaborative, incremental effort. Groundbreaking is too expensive and risky, and you have to deal with too many people and ideas and be accountable to various organizations and government shit.
However, working independently is impossible for some fields and very expensive, so you have to either be rich, get rich, or get funding which will be hard.
