The 25-year-old from Southend won Q School in May to earn a first tour card and guarantee a chance to qualify for every ranking and European Tour event.
But he says that playing "between six to 10 hours a day" to improve your game can begin to get frustrating.
"You do get tired of it, it does get very mundane and repetitive, but it has to be done," he told BBC Essex.
"I'm sure all of the guys who take the game seriously are putting in the serious hours," he added.
"I think the guys at the top of the game have already done all the hard graft in practice and got to a certain level where they are so good - they're playing all the time and in every tournament."
Wilson, who has played in amateur events from Gloucester to Barnsley and Doncaster, is currently at the Riga Open in Latvia and will play former world number one Judd Trump on Friday.
But he says that as he tries to make his way in the professional game, he needs to rely on his father for financial support.
"Currently my dad helps me a lot. He's essentially my sponsor," Wilson added.
"The idea of the whole thing is that someday I can pay him back."

Shirley Taylor said the bees took residence in her Nissan car parked outside her front door in Watt Street, on Sunday.
Chairman of the Beverley Beekeepers' Association, Chris Coulson, has been trying to lure the swarm out of the vehicle since.
He said it was not clear what had attracted the bees to the vehicle and it could take a while to clear them.
Mrs Taylor said the bees had arrived on Sunday when she received a message from a neighbour warning her to be careful of her car when she got home.
"I just went indoors and closed all the windows and the neighbours did as well," she said.
"It has been a bit of a hair-raising experience.
"There were thousands all over the place and I have been stung and my daughter and granddaughter also got stung.
"It is like Nightmare on Watt Street."
Mrs Taylor said: "I did ask 'why pick on my car?' but my husband, who is a bit of a joker, said it was because of all the Bee Gees CDs in the car."
Mr Coulson said bees usually swarm when their hives get too large and a colony breaks away to form a new one.
However, he said he had never seen such a large swarm descend on a car before.
"These cars have all kind of recesses and the bees seem to have gone into every one they could find.
"We are trying to make them fly. In the box on top of the car we have young bees, some eggs and things like that and the bees in the car will hopefully try to cover those to make sure they don't die."
He said he hoped they could remove the bees and find them a "more acceptable" new home.
Snooker player Sydney Wilson says practising to make it as a professional cueman can be "mundane and repetitive".
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A swarm of up to 20,000 bees has taken over a car in Hull.