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Daniel Coyle's The Talent Code, By Daniel Coyle

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What does it mean to be talented? This is one of the many issues that worry most people nowadays. Over the years, there have been various kinds of responses to this issue and many ways have been offered by various kinds of people. Related to the problem of what talent by signifies is the matter of how to attain it and the role talent plays in achieving it. Daniel Coyle’s book “The Talent Code” is one of many approaches to the decision of this essential issue. The Talent Code, written by famous and popular journalist Daniel Coyle, convinced that people are not born with talent but they can create it. Instead, talent is obtained through inspiration, intensive practice and a great motivation in oneself no matter how difficult the conditions. In the first chapter, Coyle writes diversity of ideas. First of all, the name of this chapter, “The Sweet Spot,” is readable because he recognizes this as the rupture between your knowledge and the use of that knowledge. This rupture is related to intensive practice which takes us to the fundamental idea of The Talent Code. According to Daniel Coyle, intensive and serious practice has a great influence on one’s abilities and purposes; he shows this with an example of a girl who attained a month’s value of practice in six minutes.This demonstrates that abilities and skills are created, not congenital. Moreover, the additional decisive theme Daniel Coyle tackles in “The Sweet Spot” is the significance of myelin and its
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