Cherish Talent!
Every child is blessed with some or the other latent talent. ‘The Talent Code’ by Daniel Coyle is an exceptionally crafted book with instructions and insights into how to identify and build the talent in a child. The book is an outcome of laborious research done by Coyle. The book has very surprising revelations about small hamlets that have produced some of the world’s most talented sportsmen, athletes and musicians. Some of the raving reviews the book has received so far are:
Coyle looks at the development of extraordinary talent, particularly in athletes, and the “revolutionary scientific discoveries” unlocking the “talent code” behind it. Interviewing top coaches, educators and researchers, traveling to talent hot spots and neurology labs, Coyle describes three steps (roughly: 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, as well as ways to understand and spur that process along (in ourselves and others). “Practice doesn’t make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.”
—Publishers Weekly
“I’d buy the book for two reasons. Firstly, Coyle is a fine writer and makes an excellent pick of examples to illustrate his case. Secondly, he delves into an area few others have tackled: the neurophysiology of learning, or what happens to the architecture of the brain during practice.”—New Scientist
“I’d buy the book for two reasons. Firstly, Coyle is a fine writer and makes an excellent pick of examples to illustrate his case. Secondly, he delves into an area few others have tackled: the neurophysiology of learning, or what happens to the architecture of the brain during practice. In a word, it’s all about myelin.”
—Michael Bond, New Scientist
“Daniel Coyle digs deep into the core of the insatiable desire to become better. An amazing read with many practical implications for everyday life.”
—Apolo Anton Ohno, Olympic gold medalist.
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