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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.
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Review :
Here it is
Have you ever wondered why certain high school teams are better than others? Why are there so many good Russian tennis players? Why is Brazil always good in the World Cup (and the USA sucks)? Or why so many great artists lived in Florence? This is a dynamic little book that puts a very readable twist on how we learn. Mr. Coyle, in a remarkable piece of writing, explains how talent is generated in the most unlikely places. His style is reminiscent of Malcolm Gladwell's work.
Mr. Coyle explains the science behind "How We Learn". He explores "Deep Practice" and "Master Coaching" as tools that the best have used for centuries. This is an addictive little read that will change how you see the world. This is a must read for parents, educators, athletes, coaches and any one else that puzzles over "How We Learn".
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Must read for coaches and teachers
Coyle has taken a fair amount of recent neurological research and expert performance theory and used it to interpret how talent hot-beds such as Brazilian "futsal" soccer, a Russian tennis camp and a successful charter school in California nurture talent to extraordinary levels. It's an easy, compelling read for someone interested in "how" great talents get that way. A lot of the examples are from athletics. I'd love to know whether Jim Collins thinks these insights might be useful in a corporate setting, but the real audience is probably the adventurous spirits who are trying to figure out how to educate kids to be more effective at what they do, how to coach better, how to help some youngster turn into the next Sarah Hughes, Yo-Yo Ma, Michael Phelps or Tiger Woods. Hopefully, there are many such spirits out there, and they will take the few hours needed to absorb The Talent Code. That might be the powder needed to blow up a few of the stultifying bureaucracies that all-too-often pass for "school" or "education."
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Interesting but not very practical.
A decent read if you are looking for something interesting but it doesnt really tell you how to develop your talent better as much as the title suggests.
As a person that actually does a lot of practice (I'm a music student) I found Roberto Moretti's book much more helpful. This book is generally just a collection of stories that, while entertaining, aren't entirely useful and can get a little repetitive.
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You've Got Talent...Learn How to Grow It
You think you've got no talent? Think again. Read Daniel Coyle's new book, //The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How//, and you might just change your mind. The book proposes that anyone can become talented--and perhaps it's not too late for you to do it to. How? Meet myelin, a substance that insulates neutral circuits in the brains of extraordinarily talented people. According to Coyle, scientists have discovered that myelin might just be the foundation for all forms of greatness--from Michaelangelo to Michael Jordan. And here's the really good news: you too can "grow" myelin and therefore become "extraordinarily talented" yourself.
Drawing on his experience in cutting-edge neurology, Daniel Coyle explains that the secret to acquiring skill comes down to three elements of the talent code: the right kind of practice (deep practice), motivation (ignition), and something called "master coaching." When these three elements converge and you learn how to operate at the edge of your abilities, you activate the neurological mechanism that promotes the growth of myelin, the microscopic nerve-fiber insulator that adds speed and accuracy to your movements and thoughts.
To confirm his point, bestselling journalist and author Daniel Coyle traveled to nine of the world's talent hotbeds, taking readers on an illuminating journey across the world to amply illustrate how the switch of success can be flipped by weaving the three elements of the talent code together, and thereby growing myelin for success and talent enhancement.
So how can you become as dazzlingly intelligent as Albert Einstein, as athletically skilled as Pelé, or as literarily intriguing as Charlotte Bronte? Where does greatness comes from? What is the Holy Grail of acquiring skill? Coyle's //The Talent Code// explains how talent grows in your brain, changes the way you think about talent, and equips us to reach our highest possible potential. Read this interesting book, which reads very much like a thriller, do discover why "greatness isn't born--it's grown."
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Dominique James
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Excellent book for everyone!
I've wondered for some time why there are "hotbeds" of talent. And why are some performers just way above everyone else? Well, there are a lot of answers in this book. I have listened to the book on cd probably 5-6 times and have just ordered the book. What else can I say? Audio book and hardcover, both at full price. Oh yeah, as the title says, this book is for EVERYONE!!!
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