1.Practice is the single most important factor in determining a person’s ultimate achievement in a given domain, it makes sense that if genes do play a role, their role would play out through shaping how likely a person is to engage in deliberate practice or how effective that practice is likely to be. Seeing it in this way puts genetic differences in a completely different light.
中文：
练习是决定某人在某个特定领域或行业中最终成就的唯一最重要因素，因此，如果基因在其中发挥作用，那么，它们的作用会慢慢消失，而以下因素更突出的作用会显现出来：他有多大的可能性从事刻意练习，或者那种练习可能多么有效。以这种方式来看问题，会从完全不同的视角来观察基因的差异。
2.People do not stop learning and improving because they have reached some innate limits on their performance; they stop learning and improving because, for whatever reasons, they stopped practicing-or never started. There is no evidence that any otherwise normal people are born without the innate talent to sing or do math or perform any other skill.
中文：
人们停止学习和进步的脚步，并不是因为他们达到了某种天生的极限，而是因为他们停止了训练，或者不论出于什么原因，从来没有开始过训练。没有证据表明，任何在其他方面正常的人，生来就不具备唱歌、解数学题或拥有其他任何技能的才能。
- The most important gifts we can give our children are the confidence in their ability to remake themselves again and again and the tools with which to do that job. They will need to see firsthand-through their own experience of developing abilities they thought were beyond them-that they control their abilities and are not held hostage by some antiquated idea of natural talent.
中文：
我们可以给孩子们留下的最重要礼物，是对他们能力的巨大信心，相信他们能够一次又一次地重新塑造自己，同时还创造一些工具来提升自己。他们需要通过发展和提高自己认为不可能具备的能力，亲眼见证自己能够掌控自己的潜能，而且不会沦为某种熟悉的天才论的人质。
