Best Books to Read and Listen

LEONARDO DA VINCI THEE BIOGRAPHY  BY WALTER ISAACSON ' To read this magnificent biography of  Leonardo da Vinci  is to take a tour through the life and works of one of the most extraordinary human beings of all time in the company of the most engaging, informed, and insightful guide imaginable.  Walter Isaacson  is at once a true scholar and a spellbinding writer. And what a wealth of lessons there are to be learned in these pages. '  David McCullough Based on thousands of pages from  Leonardo’s  astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work,  Walter Isaacson  weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. He produced the two most famous paintings in history,  The Last Supper  and  the  Mon...

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...

OUTLIERS - THE STORY OF SUCCESS   BY MALCOLM GLADWELL Definition of  outliers . An  outlier  is an observation that lies an abnormal distance from other values in a random sample from a population. Malcolm Gladwell's  primary  objective in  Outliers  is to examine achievement and failure as cultural phenomena in order to determine the factors that typically foster success. Gladwell  proposes that once a person has practiced his or her craft for 10,000 hours, they enter a threshold of genius through which fame and fortune become tangible possibilities. At that point, the person is talented enough or smart enough or capable enough to be truly  successful . The central  thesis  of the book is that while talent and dedicated practice are necessary for success, early advantage and privileged social standing are what truly make the  outliers . Outliers  explains why “the self-made man” is a myth and what truly lies be...