The creative, the restless, and the driven are not content with the status quo, and they look for ways to move forward, to do things that others have not. And once a pathfinder shows how something can be done, others can learn the technique and follow. Even if the pathfinder doesn’t share the particular technique, as is the case with Richards, simply knowing that something is possible drives others to figure it out.
中文：
那些有創造性的、不安分的、有進取心的人總是不滿足于現狀，他們尋找各種辦法來向前推進，做一些別人沒有做過的事情。一旦開拓者們展示了某件事情可以怎樣做好，其他人便能學習那一技能，并跟著做。即使開拓者像理查茲那樣，沒有和大家分享那種特定的方法，但只要知道某件事情是可以做到的，也會驅使其他人去思考。Progress is made by those who are working on the frontiers of what is known and what is possible to do, not by those who haven’t put in the effort needed to reach that frontier. In short, in most cases-and this is especially true in any well-developed area-we must rely on the experts to move us forward. Fortunately for all of us, that’s what they do best.
中文：
這些進展是由那些不斷超越自己、著力思考哪些事情有可能的人創造的，而不是那些沒有付出努力來超越自己的人創造的。簡單地講，在多數情況下，尤其是在那些得到很好發展的領域或行業，我們必須依賴杰出人物的帶動，才能不斷前進。對我們所有人來說幸運的是，那正是他們做得最好的事情。Research on the most successful creative people in various fields, particularly science, finds that creativity goes hand in hand with the ability to work hard and maintain focus over long stretches of time-exactly the ingredients of deliberate practice that produced their expert abilities in the first place.
中文：
人們對各領域（特別是科學）中最成功的創造型杰出人物進行過研究，結果發現，他們的創造力與他們能夠刻苦工作并在漫長的人生中保持專注是分不開的，而這些，恰好是刻意練習的重要組成部分。他們的杰出能力，一開始就是通過刻意練習造就的。
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