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Wasden was clearly nervous: his son was about to play in the biggest game of his life.
溫斯登的情緒顯得有些緊張激動：他的兒子即將面臨生命中最重要的一場比賽，
"He's had to work very hard for whatever he's got, I'm very proud of him."
“不管是怎樣的結局，他都需要拼盡全力。我為他感到驕傲。”
These were the ingredients of success at the highest level:
獲得最大成功不可或缺的因素包括：
passion, talent, and hard work.
激情、天分、勤奮。
But there was another element,
但還有另外一個因素沒有說及，
when did Wasden first get the sense that his son was something special?
那就是溫斯登什么時候開始覺得他的兒子在這方面的能力超過同齡人的？
"You know, he was always a bigger kid for his age,
“你不知道，在同齡人當中，他處于老大的位置，
he was strong and he had a knack for scoring goals at an early age.
他身體特別棒，在很小的時候，他便掌握了得分的訣竅。
And he was always kind of a standout for his age,
他是同齡人中的佼佼者，
a captain of his team..."
是球隊的隊長……”
Big for his age?
同齡人中的老大？
Of course he was. Scott Wasden was born on January 4,
是的，斯科特的生日是1月4日，
within three days of the absolute perfect birthday for an elite hockey player.
1月1日之后的這三天對希望成為優秀曲棍球運動員的人來說，是絕對合適的出生時間。
He was one of the lucky ones, and if by some whim
他是幸運者之一，假如，
the eligibility date for Canadian hockey was later in the year,
那時候的曲棍球體制制定者一時興起，把加拿大曲棍球注冊時間推遲到年底，
he might have been watching the Memorial Cup championship from the stands
那么，他就可能只是一個坐在看臺上欣賞紀念杯賽的球迷，
instead of playing on the ice.
而不是站在冰球場上的球員了。
Chapter TWO: The 10,000-hour rule
第二章：10000小時的標準
"In Hamburg, we had to play for eight hours."
“在漢堡，我們不得不演出8個小時。”
The University of Michigan opened its new Computer Center in 1971,
1971年，密歇根大學新落成的計算機中心正式開放，
in a brand-new building on Beal Avenue on in Ann Arbor,
那是一座坐落在安娜堡畢爾大道的低矮建筑，
with beige-brick exterior walls and dark glass front.
淺褐色的磚墻，前部鑲嵌著顏色暗淡的玻璃。
The university's enormous mainframe computers
學校巨大的主機
stood in the middle of a vast wide room,
存放在一間刷成白色的房子中間，
looking," as one faculty member remembers, "like one of the last scenes in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey."
乍看起來，“就像最近一部電影《2001太空漫游〉》的場景”，一名教職員工回憶說。
Off to the side were dozens of keypunch machines, what passed in those days for computer terminals.
主機一旁是幾打鍵盤穿孔機——那時候需要通過它向計算機終端輸送指令。
In 1971, this was state of the art.
這便是1971年的美妙場景。
The University of Michigan had one of the most advanced computer science programs in the world,
當時的密歇根大學擁有世界上最先進的
and over the course of the Computer Center's life,
計算機科學研究項目，
thousands of students passed through that wide room,
它所在的白色房間接待了成千上萬的學生
the most famous of whom was a gawky teenager named Bill Joy.
其中最為有名的是一位略顯笨拙的靑年，他的名字叫比爾.喬伊。
