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：
那些有创造性的、不安分的、有进取心的人总是不满足于现状，他们寻找各种办法来向前推进，做一些别人没有做过的事情。一旦开拓者们展示了某件事情可以怎样做好，其他人便能学习那一技能，并跟着做。即使开拓者像理查兹那样，没有和大家分享那种特定的方法，但只要知道某件事情是可以做到的，也会驱使其他人去思考。

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：
这些进展是由那些不断超越自己、着力思考哪些事情有可能的人创造的，而不是那些没有付出努力来超越自己的人创造的。简单地讲，在多数情况下，尤其是在那些得到很好发展的领域或行业，我们必须依赖杰出人物的带动，才能不断前进。对我们所有人来说幸运的是，那正是他们做得最好的事情。

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：
人们对各领域（特别是科学）中最成功的创造型杰出人物进行过研究，结果发现，他们的创造力与他们能够刻苦工作并在漫长的人生中保持专注是分不开的，而这些，恰好是刻意练习的重要组成部分。他们的杰出能力，一开始就是通过刻意练习造就的。