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

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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. 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.” Notable Quote: “It seems that to truly facilitate learning for others, trainers must understand them first; learning comes after that. Trying to impart knowledge without thoroughly understanding the learner is like venturing into enemy territory without first doing reconnaissance. Success happens because you understand others; it’s not from understanding the content.” 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 by the way we approach particular tasks. He explains what is really going on when apparently unremarkable people suddenly make a major leap forward. He reveals why some teaching methods are so much more effective than others. Above all, he shows how all of us can achieve our full potential if we set about training our brains in the right way. Read more Look Inside Details Myelin critical role is to wrap around those nerve fibers and circuits. Think of it in the way rubber is wrapped around a copper wire.

Buy Design Thinking for Training and Development. 7. The Art and Science of Training by by Elaine Biech Buy The Talent Code. 10. Workplace Learning (How to Build a Culture of Continuous Employee Development) by Nigel Paine If more myelination means becoming faster, better and more accurate, you would definitely want to know how it is created, and how we can influence it. Finally, deep practice is about time. Success doesn’t come easy. In fact, on average, you’ll need about 10,000 hours to master a skill.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 of anecdotes about "hotbeds" (he loves that term) in which he reaches far, contradicts himself, incredibly co-opts the Tom Sawyer fence whitewashing story to his means (really...guy tosses thousands of years of human psychology for a fad theory), ignores concentrations of "signals" that don't fit his model for hotbed generation...

Filled with familiar tropes (if you've any familiarity with pop-psych literature and all), but I think there's value in going through the case studies and the breakdowns of how skill in any area is really cultivated: Here are answers to common questions about training and development books. What are books about training and development? Coyle asks, "...why does it take people so long to learn complex tasks?" Um...because they're complex? That’s because you don’t have a motivation. This is the second element of the talent code. Daniel Coyle refers to it as ignition. Brazilian soccer players are good because they practice so much, but also because they are motivated by the knowledge that soccer can get them the life they’ve craved for. In fact, almost all Brazilian superstars now earning millions grew up in poverty.Imagine you want to try to swing a bat or play a note. If you do it correctly, your brain responds by wrapping myelin around the involving circuits (the circuits that successfully led to your desired outcome). Notable Quote: “There is a growing gap between the expectations of employers and the reality of how today’s new young talent is showing up in the workplace….What they are missing–way too often and more and more– is the old-fashioned basics, what many refer to as “the soft skills.” In addition, this myelination and insulation of fibers make you more accurate by preventing the electrical signals from leaking out. 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. So practice is about looking at each small element that makes up the whole task, practicing slowly and deliberately, focusing on repetition, and going outside our comfort zone. We'll make mistakes, but these are an essential part of the process. In fact, if we're not making mistakes, we're not practicing deeply enough. Coyle takes this a step further, and argues that we need to engage a lot more with struggle. He says, 'Struggle isn't an option; it's a biological requirement.'

When we look at the history books, we often see periods of outstanding achievement, endeavor, and excellence. In A Short History of Nearly Everything, we're given tremendous insight into a period of significant scientific discovery. The Renaissance was a time of great artistic accomplishments, and the Space Race was a time when America and Russia were literally reaching for the moon.You can find more about him and his hot-off-the-oven chart-topper, “The Culture Code,” at: http://danielcoyle.com/. “The Talent Code Summary” Another example of this is Se-ri Pak, a South Korean golfer, who won a major in 1998. Up until this point, golf was not on the radar for many South Koreans. However, after Se-ri Pak put South Korea and women's golfing on the map, the country experienced golfing fever. Talent is awesome, but you can code your own. This book shows you how, thumbs up for that! Who would I recommend The Talent Code summary to? The Talent Code is a book about talent and skill, and how they are developed. It explains why we see bursts of talented people, Russian tennis players, Brazilian football players, Italian artists, and others. It is based on a simple but powerful idea once you truly understand it. It's not very different from "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell, but it is more researched, more accurate, and simply more entertaining than Gladwell's book. Plus, Gladwell ends his book by trying (and failing) to explain why Chinese students are good at math. I think the ideas behind The Talent Code gives the right explanation for this phenomenon (although it's not explicitly mentioned).