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

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Where deep practice is an incremental wrapping, ignition works through lightning flashes of image and emotion, evolution-built neural programs that tap into the mind's vast reserves of energy and attention. The good news about myelin is that it isn’t fixed at birth; to the contrary, it grows, and like anything that grows, it can be cultivated and nourished. The Japanese want their kids to struggle,” said Jim Stigler, the UCLA professor who oversaw the study and who cowrote The Teaching Gap with James Hiebert.

For example, why almost all former world chess champions were Soviets, or why the Chinese are ever so dominant in table tennis? Development books provide the knowledge and skills instructors need to educate fellow professionals.In fact, success or mediocrity depends most on the way you practice, not the brain already at your disposition. Intriguing examples are given, among them exceptional novelists, artists, golfers, soccer players and tennis champions. Winner (with Hamilton) of the 2012 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Prize, he is a contributing editor for Outside magazine, and also works a special advisor to the Cleveland Indians. Plus, Gladwell ends his book by trying (and failing) to explain why Chinese students are good at math. The idea is that we should stretch ourselves to be just outside of our comfort zone, but not at the point of snapping.

Just like a baby taking its first steps and falling, skills are developed much more quickly through doing and failing, attending to mistakes, and trying again. The book tells the story of the three components of the talent-code: deep practice, ignition, and master coaching. Sentence-Summary: The Talent Code cracks open the myth of talent and breaks it down from a neurological standpoint into three crucial parts, which anyone can pull together to become a world-class performer, artist, or athlete and form something they used to believe was not even within their own hands.A colleague - psychologist - thought I'd really like the "fascinating" book he was listening to on CD. Myelin is the insulation that wraps these nerve fibers and increases signal strength, speed, and accuracy. The book also spoke about some of the best coaches in the world, how futsal was introduced to the UK and the Bronte sisters!