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The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.
by Daniel Coyle

(82 reviews)


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What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? In this groundbreaking work, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle provides parents, teachers, coaches, businesspeople—and everyone else—with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others.

Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying to improve your golf swing, this revolutionary book shows you how to grow talent by tapping into a newly discovered brain mechanism.

Drawing on cutting-edge neurology and firsthand research gathered on journeys to nine of the world’s talent hotbeds—from the baseball fields of the Caribbean to a classical-music academy in upstate New York—Coyle identifies the three key elements that will allow you to develop your gifts and optimize your performance in sports, art, music, math, or just about anything.

• Deep Practice Everyone knows that practice is a key to success. What everyone doesn’t know is that specific kinds of practice can increase skill up to ten times faster than conventional practice.

• Ignition We all need a little motivation to get started. But what separates truly high achievers from the rest of the pack? A higher level of commitment—call it passion—born out of our deepest unconscious desires and triggered by certain primal cues. Understanding how these signals work can help you ignite passion and catalyze skill development.

• Master Coaching What are the secrets of the world’s most effective teachers, trainers, and coaches? Discover the four virtues that enable these “talent whisperers” to fuel passion, inspire deep practice, and bring out the best in their students.

These three elements work together within your brain to form myelin, a microscopic neural substance that adds vast amounts of speed and accuracy to your movements and thoughts. Scientists have discovered that myelin might just be the holy grail: the foundation of all forms of greatness, from Michelangelo’s to Michael Jordan’s. The good news about myelin is that it isn’t fixed at birth; to the contrary, it grows, and like anything that grows, it can be cultivated and nourished.

Combining revelatory analysis with illuminating examples of regular people who have achieved greatness, this book will not only change the way you think about talent, but equip you to reach your own highest potential.

 
Reviews:

A fine generalist introduction
I had this book referred to me coupled with some pretty lofty laudatory praise. A sea parting event for the reader. That, it wasn't (for me)...but it is a fine book that largely restates established rules for deep learning towards outperformance capabilities to arise. It also provides some fine examples for each of the key themes the author is attempting to communicate. Coyle is an established and fine writer, so the text flows well. In sum, I found this book useful and likely to be very powerful for a reader who has not previously been exposed to general issues of training and deep learning for outperformance results.

 

Fantastic book
Daniel has written a book that not only is a fun read, but documents his thesis well. The entire premise of the book, how we develop talent is fascinating and he has an innate ability to speak directly to the reader. His writing style is conversational, fun, and irreverent. The way we develop talent can be applied to all areas of one's life. Great read.

 

Great book
It was recommended by a friend, bought it, loved it, bought another for another friend.

 

This is a must-read - invaluable insight to the benefits of practice.
If you are serious about acquiring a skill or helping others acquire a skill of any type, this book is a must-read!!! The understanding of what happens to us physically when we practice to acquire a skill, any skill, is a real eye opener.

 

Does not live up to title.
I found this book interesting only through the first few chapters.

The information on myelin and how we learn make a lot of sense. Coyle's first few chapters were written with this deep practice method in mind - short stories and good examples breaking down how the process works. Thus, I understood it better.

Then, the book veers to tangentially-related tales about hotbeds of success -such as with the KIPP educators, who must have granted the author more access than the other hotbeds because it carried on and on.

Admittedly I had to skim ahead. My eyes perked up later when I saw the chapter on Jamarcus Russell and his trainer. It is unfortunate that he was chosen as an example, considering he is one of the biggest NFL draft busts. The much-told Kurt Warner saga exemplifies deep practice (he learned from the compressed Arena League action, and failures) than Russell the underachiever.

Fortunately the Jamarcus Russell story is late in the book - and many readers will have bailed by then.

The book is OK at best and rates much lower than the excellent "Lance Armstrong's War". It is too bad the book does not practice what it preaches.







 

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