What is easy to do is also easy not to do.
How long should you try? Until.
Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.
Ambitious people know that everything they do and every discipline they adhere to, form the links in the chain of events that will lead them to their final destination.
My suggestion would be to walk away from the 90% who don't and join the 10% who do.
To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.