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

Author: Daniel Coyle

Narrator: John Farrell

Unabridged: 6 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/13/2019


Synopsis

What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? This groundbreaking work provides readers 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.

About The Author

DANIEL COYLE wrote the New York Times bestseller Lance Armstrong's War and Hardball: A Season in the Projects (which was made into a movie starring Keanu Reeves and Diane Lane in 2001). A contributing editor of Outside magazine, he lives with his wife and four children in Homer, Alaska, where he coaches a rapidly improving Little League team.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Hans on April 23, 2010

This book is first and foremost a cultural myth-buster. There are so many dangerous collectively held beliefs about human potential and its limits. One of the greatest insults that we can say to someone who is talented is that they came by it naturally. When we label people as naturally talented, or......more

Goodreads review by Amir on September 14, 2018

There exist a zone of accelerated learning, in which you learn super fast, and retain a lot more. Prodigies like Mozart, Davinci, etc., were only lucky enough to know how to enter that zone deliberately. In other words, they had cracked the talent code. In this review, I will share with you this lif......more

Goodreads review by Alan on November 25, 2011

One of the most often-quoted facts regarding talent, which I first heard in Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers", is that becoming an expert in a given field takes on average about 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. However, that term 'deliberate practice' can seem somewhat vague: what exactly is suppose......more

Goodreads review by Jim on February 18, 2023

Coyle asks, "...why does it take people so long to learn complex tasks?" Um...because they're complex? Any time someone opens up with how they'll reveal "revolutionary scientific discoveries", the best advice is to run away. I didn't take my own advice and stubbornly slogged through this collection......more

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘ on May 17, 2018

2 ideas, in all, but very good ones! Do the more difficult things. Challenge yourself. Practice. Fragment things. Q: Q: Углубленная практика основана на парадоксе: тренировка на грани возможностей, сопровождающаяся ошибками, делает вас умнее. Другими словами, если в процессе тренировки вы вынуждены зам......more


Quotes

"I only wish I'd never before used the words 'breakthrough' or 'breathtaking' or 'magisterial' or 'stunning achievement' or 'your world will never be the same after you read this book.' Then I could be using them for the first and only time as I describe my reaction to Daniel Coyle's The Talent Code. I am even willing to 'guarantee' that you will not read a more important and useful book in 2009, or pretty much any other year. And if all that's not enough, it's also 'a helluva good read.'" —Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence"This is a remarkable—even inspiring—book. Daniel Coyle has woven observations from brain research, behavioral research, and real-world training into a conceptual tapestry of genuine importance. What emerges is both a testament to the remarkable potential we all have to learn and perform and an indictment of any idea that our individual capacities and limitations are fixed at birth." —Dr. Robert Bjork, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Psychology, UCLA“Daniel Coyle digs deep into the core of the insatiable desire to become ‘better.’ An amazing read with many practical applications for everyday life.” —Apolo Anton Ohno, Olympic gold medalist