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

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

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.

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好书！学英语的时候老师推荐的

Daniel Coyle has created a real gem of a book with "The Talent Code". Don't allow the easy flowing narrative style of the book (based on Daniel's own initial research query) to lull you into missing the profundity of what the author discovered during his personal journey to find the core of what is behind extremely talented individuals. One of the hot current buzzwords regarding the human brain is: "neuroplasticity". You do not however have to study dense textbooks or jargon-filled journals on neuroscience in order to get up to speed on what scientists are now discovering about the plasticity of our brains (and "mind" [a meta-network of intelligence]). Mr. Coyle provides a more direct and potentially life-altering approach. Humans learn from hearing stories, and this book is full of little first-hand account "case histories". The book is not devoid of science, however. The epilogue covers the "myelin world". Myelin is a neural insulator, which is related to how we acquire complex skills. Practicing a skill over, and over (e.g., shooting hoops, or playing the violin), makes your myelin get thicker. If you want to develop your full potential---get this book!!!

With 34 reviews already written for this book I can only justify writing another if I think I have something to say that hasn't been said by other reviewers.

I have spent most of my adult life teaching, in universities and in industry. Through it all I have always sought better ways to perform the task of getting a concept or a bit of understanding from my head into that of someone else. And I've also often struggled with getting it into my own head, and many times I have struggled with getting from the novice stage to one of mastery of a concept or skill.

Bear with me as I attempt to set the stage for your understanding what I am trying to say. Being a scientist I'll approach the topic from the viewpoint of a scientist. In science research, or the organization of existing research, is usually done either to (a) support (i.e. to "prove") a hypothesis or (b) to disprove a hypothesis. Coyle's approach in "The Talent Code" is the former - he is assembling evidence in an attempt to prove that myelin is the "key" to developing talent. That's fine, but what I am most interested in is that he has assembled a large amount of data concerning development of talent. We don't have to accept his hypothesis to make use of his data.

The myelin sheath effectively makes some neuronal connections more effective than others; that is undeniable. Thus it is unarguably an important factor in speed of transmission. That, along with details of the chemistry of neurotransmitters, neuronal connections, the function of glial cells, and an infinitude of factors unknown collectively make up the "key" to developing talent.

I'm heading toward a strong recommendation of this book. How can I get there when I've just buried the author's theory, the basis for the book, in a pile of other factors that I consider to be of potentially equal or greater importance? The answer is simple. Coyle has assembled a sequence of steps that he argues does lead to maximization of talent. And he backs up that assemblage of steps with enough examples to leave little doubt about the general "correctness" of his argument. Whether one accepts or rejects Coyle's explanation the steps that he argues leads to talent development clearly work.

Who will benefit from reading this book, and why? If you are a teacher or a learner you can benefit greatly in the direct application of his observations to your daily work. If you want or need to develop a talent in yourself Coyle gives a blueprint for how to do that. If you are interested in the "myelin viewpoint" you'll get a reasonably complete view of that. If you want to know the "answer" to the question of the biology/chemistry of how talent is developed, this isn't the place to find it though you'll see one such hypothesis developed in some detail.

In short, I recommend reading the book with the mindset that if you follow the prescription you'll get the desired results. If he's correct in that myelin is the magic ingredient so be it. If he's wrong, you'll still have the results, and that's nothing to sneeze at.

The Talent Code is one of those books I wish had been written many years ago, so that I could have put it to use much earlier in my life. If the reader is a coach/instructor, manager, teacher, mentor or student, it will be of value - very possibly profound value. Talent Code practices and principles can be applied to work, hobbies, sports, training, study habits, and even the way you engage with and digest new information. Tom Peters (author of "In Search of Excellence") tells us in the foreword that he thinks The Talent Code is one of the most important and useful books he has read. The book is extensively researched, with Coyle traveling over 50,000 miles in two years to observe and talk with the leaders of talent "hotbeds." Coyle provides a diverse collection of real world case histories from which the working tenets of the Talent Code were derived. He also explores emerging scientific research which is shedding new light on how talent is optimally grown and expanded. Finally, the closing "Notes on Sources" section provides the reader with a comprehensive list of Coyle's reference sources, chapter by chapter.

History has shown us it takes a few years for a "powerful" idea or concept to get noticed by by a few thousand followers. These are usually fans of the author or people in the same field of study the book was originally written for. If a book has a following still after five years, it moves to the idea being applicable and being adapted by the reader and parts of society at large. The Talent Code will soon reach the phase of being a book that is used across disciplines with breakthrough results that will re-shape our future in being smarter, faster and better. I call this book the Black Swan of igniting talent. Black Swan's are those ideas that are unpredictable, improbable and create a huge impact for the world. Talent Code is doing just that. The scary part is the idea hasn't hit mainstream yet. But it is only a matter of time. Mark my words!

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