The work of real science is hard and often for long intervals frustrating. You have to be a bit compulsive to be a productive scientist. Keep in mind that new ideas are commonplace, and almost always wrong. This formula is not bootcamp rhetoric. More than half of the PhD's in science are still born, dropping out of original research after at most one or two publications.
Original discovery is everything.
Scientists as a rule do not discover in order to know but rather, as the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead observed, they know in order to discover. There they spread out like foragers on a picket line, each alone or in small groups probing a carefully chosen, narrow sector. They already know what generally bonds them. They are fellow prospectors pressing deeper into an abstracted world, content most of the time to pick up an occasional nugget but dreaming of the mother lode. I'm close, this could be the day.