A review by kbeddes
The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else by Daniel Coyle

4.0

I need to learn my lesson and stop listening to educational audiobooks because I want to highlight and reread certain parts! I read this as a follow-up to Make It Stick by Peter C. Brown and it was a perfect pairing. The book is split into three different sections: deep practice, ignition, and master coaching. The author goes to several different "talent hotbed" looking for commonalities in where genius is grown. I think the biggest takeaway from the book is the power of myelin and how one can use it for lifelong learning. It was interesting for me to look back over the skills and talents that I possess and realize that they are results of the growth of myelin, and the things that I haven't developed yet is just an opportunity for more myeline growth. The things in this book connected to learning in my masters classes, researchers like Csikszentmihalyi, Vygotsky, Dweck, and others. SO INTERESTING. I wish there was a way to teach my kids this stuff.