The talent code
Daniel Coyle, a revered journalist, spent years investigating the possible origins of skill. Whether it is sports, language, mathematics, or science, Coyle asserts the biology and myelin are the two biggest factors in producing success. Based on his findings, Coyle presents an easy, foolproof program that will allow listeners to develop their own path toward success.
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- Talent Code by Daniel Coyle. It’s an amazing book about how the best teams and most skilled people in the world learn and get good at their craft. I started learning piano as an adult which is incredibly difficult. Reading this book made a huge impact on how I approach learning. And it’s made a big difference to my playing skills.
His other book Culture Code is also brilliant (about building world class teams).
- Deep Work, by Cal Newport : to focus on what matters. The talent code, by Danie Coyle : to understand the value of deliberate practice. Brain at work, astonishingly useful mixing practical neuroscience and concrete situations. Getting things Done : to adopt a good time management system (you can tweak the method). Good luck !
- My criterion is 'influential on me', they may not necessarily be the greatest works of literature.
Mastery - Robert Greene
The Talent Code - Daniel Coyle
Peak - Anders Ericsson
The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy - William B. Irvine
The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning - Peter C. Brown
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art - Stephen Nachmanovitch
Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
- On the same trail of thought https://www.amazon.ca/Talent-Code-Greatness-Born-Grown/dp/05... is a great read.
Shows many examples of how deliberate practice on the edge of your current ability is what equals mastery ( whilst also exploring the science behind it )
- I think one word would shed light on such anecdotes: deliberate practice. Countless literature and researches have pointed out that simply doing more would not bring much improvement but find out what is missing and practice it to perfection then move to another weaknesses is the best way to achieve top performance, be it in sport, in music or other fields. Like someone who want to learn chess; simply plays a lot each and every day will improve his ELO slowly but it will stall after a while (say at the level of a club player) and he can almost certainly never attain the mastery. In opposite, someone who seeks guidance, study and practice to fix his weaknesses and perfect his technique will improve vastly more in the same amount of time. Effective practice and coaching is also the only difference between merely very good players and grand masters. I can’t imagine why it should be different in the field of programming and software engineering. Someone who writes thousands sloppy games might have learned how to do them faster (and maybe better) but he still learned nothing more about complex systems or secure systems. Only with intense study and practice he can master such stuffs effectively.
The Talent Code of Coyle is a good book to start reading about deliberate practice.
- May I recommend “The Talent Code”?
It’s an excellent book discussing the concept of “talent” in the context of practice and quality attention.
The word talent implies something one is born with. Turns out that how good one is at something has much more to do with the quality of the neuropathways generated by specific practice habits.
