Purposeful practice requires getting out of one’s comfort zone.
刻意练习要求走出舒适区。
This is perhaps the most important part of purposeful practice.
这可能是刻意练习最重要的部分。
Oare’s music student shows no sign of ever pushing himself beyond what was familiar and comfortable.
没有迹象显示奥尔音乐学院的学生是被熟悉和舒服的推动前进的。
Instead, the student’s words seem to imply a rather desultory attempt at practice, with no effort to do more than what was already easy for him.
相反，学生的话似乎暗示着练习上的漫不经心，并不需再去做对他已经很容易的事以外的努力。
That approach just doesn’t work.
这个方法并不奏效。
Our memory experiment was set up to keep Steve from getting too comfortable.
所建立的记忆试验用了让斯蒂文不会太过舒适。
As he increased his memory capacity, I would challenge him with longer and longer strings of digits so that he was always close to his capacity.
当他的记忆能力增加时，我会用越来越长的数字串挑战他，因此他总是接近他的能力。
In particular, by increasing the number of digits each time he got a string right, and decreasing the number when he got it wrong, I kept the number of digits right around what he was capable of doing while always pushing him to remember just one more digit.
实际上，通过每次当他答对了增加数字数量、打错了减少数字数量，我会保持数串的数量刚好比他能记住的数量多1个，
This is a fundamental truth about any sort of practice: If you never push yourself beyond your comfort zone, you will never improve.
对任何得意练习这都是一条真理：如果你不把自己推出舒适区，你永远不会进步。
The amateur pianist who took half a dozen years of lessons when he was a teenager but who for the past thirty years has been playing the same set of songs in exactly the same way over and over again may have accumulated ten thousand hours of “practice” during that time, but he is no better at playing the piano than he was thirty years ago.
一个年轻时学过半年课程的业余钢琴手，在过去的三十年里，用正确的方法一遍又一遍的弹奏同一批曲子，在这期间他可能累积了一万小时的练习时间。
Indeed, he’s probably gotten worse.
事实上，他的演奏可能更糟糕了。
词汇
1）comfort zone 舒适区
2）show no sign of… 没有显现…
3）imply v. 显示，说明
4）desultory adj. 漫不经心的（marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose）
5）capacity n. 能力，能力上限
6）amateur n. 业余爱好者，外行; adj. 外行的，业余的
7）no better than 不比…强
