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But no one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time.
然而，不需要花費多少時間練習，一個人的技能就達到世界水準，目前還沒有這樣的案例。
It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it need to know to achieve true mastery."
可以看出，長時間的練習能讓人腦吸取各種技能信息，保證一個人成為專家，”
This is true even of people we think of as prodigies.
即使我們眼中的天才，他們的成功也是如此。
Mozart, for example, famously started writing music at six.
例如，莫扎特，這位著名的音樂家6歲就開始作曲。
But, according to the psychologist Michael Howe in his book Genius explained,
但是，心理學家邁克爾.豪在他的著作《解讀天才》里面卻說道：
by the standards of mature composers, Mozart's early works are not outstanding.
在成長為作曲家之前，早期莫扎特并不讓人覺得超凡脫俗。
The earliest pieces were probably written down by his father, and perhaps improved in the process.
他早期的作品都是在父親的幫助下完成，在父親的指導下取得進步。
Many of Wolfgang's childhood compositions, such as the first seven of his concertos for piano and orchestra,
沃爾夫岡小時候的許多作品，例如鋼琴和管弦第七協奏曲，
are largely arrangements of works by other composers.
幾乎都是在其他作曲家幫助下完成的。
Of those concertos that only contain music original to Mozart, the earliest that is now regarded as a masterwork (No.9, K. 271)
當然這些協奏曲只是莫扎特音樂生涯的起的作品（N0.9, K271):從這時開始，
was not composed until he was 21: by that time, Mozart had already been composing concertos for ten years.
從這時開始，莫扎特開始了十來年的協奏曲作曲家生涯。
The music critic Harold Schonberg goes further: Mozart, he argues, actually "developed late,"
另一位音樂評論家哈諾德勛博格甚至認為，莫扎特的音樂生涯實際上“發展遲緩”，
since he didn't produce his greatest work until he had been composing for over twenty years.
在經過了20多年的作曲鍛煉之后，才創作了他最偉大的作品。
To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years.
象棋大師的成長也需要10年以上的時間。
(Only the legendary Bobby Fischer got to that elite level in less than that time: it took him nine years.)
（只有國際象棋的傳奇大師鮑比菲舍爾例外，他只用了9年時間，就進入了頂尖棋手的行列。）
And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice.
10年意味者什么？它是10，000個小時的艱苦訓練。
Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.
對那些取得偉大成就的人來說，10,000個小時是個魔幻般的數字。
Here is the explanation for what was so puzzling about the rosters of the Czech and Canadian national sports teams.
這就充分解釋了令人費解的捷克的運動員名單和加拿大國家運動隊員的選拔。
There was virtually no one on those teams born after September 1, which doesn't seem to make any sense.
在這些名單中，幾乎沒有人出生在9月1日之后，這看起來或許并不是什么大不了的事。
You'd think that there should be a fair number of Czech hockey or soccer prodigies born late in the year
你也許會認為，在捷克曲棍球和足球運動員中，那些能力超凡的運動員憑借自己的努力，
who are so talented that they eventually make new way into the top tier as young adults.
即便在下半年出生，即便他們出生較晚，他們依舊可以在很年輕的時候就進入頂尖行列。
But to Ericsson and those who argue against the primacy of talent, that isn't surprising at all.
但是對埃里克森和其他反對把天賦放在首位的人來說，是不大可能出現這種意外驚喜的。
