And to start those studies about 40 years ago, I began to look at creative people -- first artists and scientists, and so forth -- trying to understand what made them feel that it was worth essentially spending their life doing things for which many of them didn't expect either fame or fortune, but which made their life meaningful and worth doing.
Na početku tih istraživanja prije 40-ak godina, počeo sam proučavati kreativne ljude -- najprije umjetnike i znanstvenike, i druge -- pokušavajući razumjeti što im to daje osjećaj  da je vrijedno provesti život u aktivnostima za koje velik broj njih  ne očekuje ni slavu, ni bogatstvo, ali koje im čine život smislenim  i vrijedne su truda.