The Iceberg concept is taken from the historic sinking of the Titanic ship. There are things that are evidently visible to the eye, and those things that are there, yet they are not visible to the ordinary public eye.  The diagram above crystallizes the anatomy of success. There has to be painstaking effort and preparation behind the scenes, yet what the world sees often and so easily is just success and glamour. Others mistakenly end up believing that success is easy.