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

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This is why effective organizations practice the First Discipline: they define the business outcomes before they embark on any learning initiative. 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. The Talent Code is a fascinating study of success, the success of groups or clusters of people in widely separated parts of the globe and in many different fields of endeavour. As you grow old this insulator like substance (think of an electricity wire that slowly has its covering worn away so you can see the metal wiring inside) slowly wears away and you can’t function as well. He explains what is really going on when apparently unremarkable people suddenly make a major leap forward.

Notable Quote: “In the workplace, time and budget pressures force us to focus on how quickly we can produce, implement, and deliver training. We spend billions of dollars each year on training solutions without significant success stories to share in terms of results or rave reviews from learners. If we think of our brains as a circuit, with loads of wires linking all the different areas of the brain, myelin is the insulation around all of the wires. Spending more time is effective—but only if you're still in the sweet spot at the edge of your capabilities, attentively building and honing circuits.By age 20, the elite performers had averaged more than 10,000 hours of practice each, while the less able performers had only done 4,000 hours of practice. Staff focus more on what needs to be done and admit what they do not know and seek help to get things right. Through analyzing case studies and biographical accounts of renowned and exceptional people, we'll look at how talent can be nurtured. The text follows the education principles it preaches by providing illustrated examples and exercises that help readers engage with the material. The group had all started out at the same time so were starting from the same playing field but the assessor asked them one fundamental question and based on the answer to that the results were incredible.

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. These are places that where skills are built with extraordinary results, all out of proportion to their size, or the quality of their environment or facilities.

This focus means that when youngsters grow up, and start playing with a soccer ball, they become masters of the game. Teachers also need to know how to properly evaluate comprehension and adjust materials after the course. 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. I wish there were more discussion about this -- but I think we just don't understand it well enough. By following these core principles, leaders can create successful corporate learning programs that result in meeting business objectives.

The author points out that those who are truly talented started off as terrible and then became good. Notable Quote: “Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways–operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes–makes you smarter. But by spending that time putting in the right kind of effort, you can achieve some pretty amazing things. What's more, there seems to be a universal limit for how much deep practice human beings can do in a day. Once we harness the power of fluency and accuracy, and access effective practice and motivation, we unlock the code to reveal talents.Drawing on examples that range from Internet retailer Zappos to the comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade to a daring gang of jewel thieves, Coyle offers specific strategies that trigger learning, spark collaboration, build trust, and drive positive change. The book explores case studies of concentrated talent, such as the number of baseball stars originating from the Caribbean or the three Brontë sisters emerging from a single household. If you want to understand how successful groups work—the signals they transmit, the language they speak, the cues that foster creativity—you won’t find a more essential guide than The Culture Code. The plot of the talent story thickens (literally, from a myelin-perspective) as master coaches combine the forces of deep practice and ignition to grow talent in others. 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.