Innovation is a magical thing. Some inventors who achieve great things don't work harder and harder than their peers, but because they often pick up "accidental" treasures.
One of the world's most notable innovations recently was the birth of ChatGPT, a generative AI model. I think it's probably one of the greatest inventions since the Industrial Revolution, developed by OpenAI and not initially received special attention from the U.S. government.
The Wright brothers invented the airplane, the first to use bicycle technology - countless people have wanted to invent airplanes before, no one thought that the first to fly into the sky was the "bicycle" manufacturer; Microwave technology, originally a component used to drive radar magnetrons, accidentally made microwave ovens; The first electronic computers used tubes, but tubes were not invented for computers at all.
