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

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With a canny grasp of his subject, Daniel Coyle looks at the development of unusual talent, particularly in athletes, and the “revolutionary scientific discoveries” unlocking the “talent code” in the back of it. Cutting across the nature/nurture argument, Coyle examines research into myelin, a neural insulator produced when we time and again “fire a particular circuit”; the more myelin produced along that circuit, the “stronger, faster, and more accurate our [relevant] movements and thoughts turn into.” Interviewing top coaches, educators and researchers, traveling to talent hot spots and neurology labs, Coyle describes three steps (kind of: visualizing and comprehending, repeating and perfecting, and emotional connection) employed (knowingly or not) by talents like the skate-boarding Z-Boys, Brazilian soccer players, the Bronte sisters, pop musicians, outperforming school kids and others, in addition to how one can remember and spur that process along (in ourselves and others). An exciting, accessible window into research that could trigger a revolution in education and the remedy of mental illness, this intriguing study also puts better-known models of learning into viewpoint: “Practice doesn’t make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.”

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