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In 1935, for example, when my mother and her sister were four, a historian named William M. MacMillan came to visit Jamaica. 例如,在1935年,我的母亲和她的妹妹才4岁时,一个名叫威廉姆麦克米兰的历史学家访问牙买加,
it is also the tallest because no other trees block its sunlight, 还因为没有别的树木遮蔽它的阳光, because the soil around it was deep and rich, 因为树木周围的土壤肥沃而深厚; because no rabbit chewed through its bark a
He then looked at the region where the Rosetans lived. 接着,他又把思路集中在罗赛托人生活的这块区域。 Was it possible that there was something about living in the foothills of eastern Pennsylvania that was good for their health
And what happens when a player gets chosen for a rep squad? 一个球员如果能有幸进入曲棍球巡回赛,他将获得什么? He gets better coaching, 他会拥有优秀的教练、 and his teammates are better, 更出色的队友、 and he
That late-born prodigy doesn't get chosen for the all-star team as an eight year old because he's too small. 那些虽然满了8岁,但出生较晚的天才,之所以没能选进明星球队,是因为他们年龄偏小了。 So he doesn't get t
But no one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. 然而,不需要花费多少时间练习,一个人的技能就达到世界水准,目前还没有这样的案例。 It seems that it takes the bra
Joy came to the University of Michigan the year the Computer Center opened, 乔伊进入密歇根大学的时候,恰逢这座计算机中心正式开放。 he was sixteen, he was tall and very thin, with a mop of unruly hair. 他当时16岁,瘦长身
If we chose to, we could acknowledge that cutoff dates matter. 如果我们拥有更多的选择权,就会发现法定注册时间对起步者非常重要。 We can set up two or even three hockey leagues, divided up by month of birth. 我们可以依
Ericsson and his colleagues then compared amateur pianists with professional pianist. 随后,埃里克森和他的同事又在钢琴业余演奏者和专业演奏家之间作了比较, The same pattern emerged. 得到的情形一模一样。 The
On their third trip. they played 48 times, for a total of 172 hours on stage. 第三次,他们表演了48场,演出的时间总共达到172个小时: The last two Hamburg gigs, in November and December of 1962, involved another 90 hours of perf
Is the ten-thousand hour rule a general rule of success? 这是成功的常规定律? If we scratch below the surface of every great achiever, do we always find the equivalent of the Michigan Computer Center, 如果你能深入剖折各项伟大的成
If you were to look at the list of where the last twenty-five Americans to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine got their undergraduate degree, 要是看看获得诺贝尔医学奖的25位美国人毕业的大学名单: you'll be surprised at what you'd
What Hudson is saying is that IQ is a lot like height in basketball. 在哈德森看来,一个人的IQ就如篮球运动员的身高一样。 Does someone who is five foot six have a realistic chance of playing professional basketball? 一个身高
In school, Langan could walk into a language test where he had not studied at all, 上学之后,他对语文之类的课程漫不经心,根本就没有怎么学过, and if there were two or three minutes before the instructor arrived, he could
I didn't have the money to repair it. 我没有钱修车, So I went to the dean and my advisor in sequence and I said, I have a problem. 所以我先后找到学院院长和我的指导老师,告诉他们说我遇到了麻烦。 The transmission
Dreading the thought of having to talk to an audience of adults, Robert begged his father to explain that they had invited a twelve-year-old. 由于担心自己的听众都是一些成年人,罗伯特请求他的父母去解释一下,毕竟自己只
Look at how easily Alex interrupts the doctor, I'm not ten. That's entitlement: 看看,亚历克斯这样轻易就打断了医生的话我不是10岁。这是一种权利: his mother permits that casual incivility because she wants him to learn t
The first critical fact about Harlan is that at the same time that the Howards and the Turners were killing each other, there were almost identical clashes in other small towns up and down in the Appalachians. 关于哈兰的第一个关键的事实是
In the month the glide scope had been under repair, there had been something like 1,500 safe landings at Guam airport. 在跑道射灯进行修理的那个月里,已经有1500架飞机都安全着陆在关岛机场。 It was a small thing-an inconv
Take the following list of numbers: 4, 8, 5, 3, 9, 7, 6. Spend 20 seconds memorizing that sequence before saying them out loud again. 看看下面的数字:4、8、5、3、9、7、6,将它们大声读出来,然后背过脸去,用20秒来仔细回