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Review: The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Anything

The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Anything The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Anything by Daniel Coyle
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I think that The Talent Code is a book that should be read by everyone who is a current or aspiring coach/teacher. It's a book full of scientifically backed and field-tested information on the cultivation of skill. Now, if you’re not interested in being able to effectively pass these concepts onto others (aka you’re not a coach/teacher) then this book will also be useful to you, because the science is self-applicable. It's just that it's also extremely useful information for people in those positions.

This book walks you through each of the crucial components of the acquisition of skill through the author's journeys around the world as he was finding out these things himself. You join Daniel Coyle as he travels to numerous “talent hotbeds”--places that see enormous levels of skill growth--and talks with the people there, researchers, scientists, and psychologists, to find out exactly what makes the people in these hotbeds so successful. Along the way the answer becomes more and more apparent, and as a reader you start seeing how the concepts apply to your own everyday life, and your own goals and skills. And this is something I encourage--Take notes and connect while you’re reading, so that you can actually apply these findings to your everyday life.

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