But where does such creativity ultimately come from? Is it not a whole other level beyond deliberate practice—which is, after all, based on practicing things in ways that other people have figured out in order to develop skills of the sort that others have already developed? I don’t believe so. Having studied many examples of creative genius, it’s clear to me that much of what expert performers do to move the boundary of their fields and create new things is very similar to what they were doing to reach that boundary in the first place.
