The Talent Code
Daniel Coyle

Introduction

Part 1: Deep Practice

Chapter 1: Sweet Spot

Chapter 2: The Deep Practice Cell

Chapter 3: The Brontes, the Z-Boys and the Renaissance

Chapter 4: The Three Rules of Deep Practice

Part 2: Ignition

Chapter 5: Primal Cues

Chapter 6: The Curacao Experiment

Chapter 7: How to Ignite a Hotbed

Part 3: Master Coaching

Chapter 8: The Talent Whisperers

Chapter 9: The Teaching Circuit: A Blueprint

Chapter 10: Tom Martinez and the $60 Million Bet

Epilogue: The Myelin World

Notes on Sources

Acknowledgments

Index

Electric impulse through connected nerve fibers

As it happens the myelin grows and wraps on these particular pathway of fibers

Skill is acquired

Deep practice, Ignition and Master coaching are all important

Targeted struggle

Operate at the edge where you make mistakes

Passion and persistence

Skill is insulation that wraps neural circuits and grows according to certain signals.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Rules

Rule 1: Chunk it up

Absorb the whole thing

Break it into chunks

Slow it down

Rule 2: Repeat it

Rule 3: Learn to feel it

Attention, Connect, Build, Whole, Alert, Focus, Mistake, Repeat, Tiring, Edge, Awake

Feeling of Loss, You are behind - pick up

Better get busy

Motivation - Good effort, good work, I expected so much from you

4 Virtues

  1. The martix
  1. Perceptiveness
  1. The GPS Reflex
  1. Theatrical Honesty

A teacher is one who makes himself
progressively unnecessary.