The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. by Daniel Coyle
THE TALENT CODE : GREATNESS ISN'T BORN. IT'S GROWN. BY DANIEL COYLE 1-Sentence-Summary: The Talent Code cracks open the myth of talent and breaks it down from a neurological standpoint into three crucial parts, which anyone can pull together to become a world-class performer, artist, or athlete and form something they used to believe was not even within their own hands. 3 lessons: More myelin is how you hardwire skills into your body. Use deep practice to increase the myelin around your neural pathways. Chunk up what you’re practicing into its smallest units. In The Talent Code , award-winning journalist Daniel Coyle draws on cutting-edge research to reveal that, far from being some abstract mystical power fixed at birth, ability really can be created and nurtured. In the process, he considers talent at work in venues as diverse as a music school in Dallas and a tennis academy near Moscow to demonstrate how the wiring of our brains can be transformed...