Multiply Your Powers by 10...is it worth it?

Is it easier to go off and sacrifice your life (immediate)...or, spend 6 years investing your life in something difficult (...perhaps "study"...perhaps something else)...?  We always seem to want the quickest and the easiest...but, 10-fold power sounds nice.

"...these young men unhappily fail to understand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices, and that to sacrifice, for instance, five or six years of their seething youth to hard and tedious study, if only to multiply ten-fold their powers of serving the truth and the case they have set before them as their goal--such a sacrifice is utterly beyond the strength of many of them." (Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov)