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The Sweet Spot By Daniel Coyle Summary

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Doyle's Deep Practice In Daniel Coyle's piece The Sweet Spot, the author discusses deep practice which is a concept that is necessary to build a set of skills through a dedicated training and learning from one's mistakes. Doyle seems to suggest that deep practice is what creates greatness and not natural intuition. Effective practice is what builds skills and active memory as well as the ability to learn from mistakes. Doyle's two concepts of learning through mistakes and practicing is what teaches may to train effectively to build talent and skills. Practicing continously is a necessary component. In Doyle's illustration of the success of the Brazilian soccer team, the author attributes many factors to the team's success such as good climate, passion for the game and an ethnically diverse population. (15) However, one big factor is futsal which is a game that is faster than soccer, played in a restrictive areas and a smaller and heavier ball. This smaller space and heavier ball needs to be handled with more precision and can contribute to the player's skills on the soccer field. The futsal ball allows for players to use the ball far more often. According to Doyle, "Futsal players touch the ball far more often than soccer players-six times more often per minute, according to a Liverpool University …show more content…

If a person wants to gain a skill and become better at something, it is best to take time and learn from errors. To quote Doyle, "The second reason deep practice is a strange concept is that it takes events that we normally strive to avoid-namely, mistakes-and thens them into skills (13). The mistake portion of Deep practice suggest can be broken down to fine tune. To quote Doyle, "You have positioned yourself at a place of leverage where you can capture failure and turn it into a skill." Breaking down a problematic area may give the ability to give a medicore performance into something

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