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

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The Art and Science of Training explores the creative and logical aspects of professional development. The book imagines the practice as both a science and an art and teaches instructors how to maximize the impact of lessons inside and outside the classroom. Training expert Elaine Biech breaks down instruction into core components like designing lessons around students, mastering technology, and aligning content with organizational standards. The book also teaches facilitators how to handle difficult situations like stubborn students or technical glitches. Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying to improve your golf swing, this revolutionary book shows you how to grow talent by tapping into a newly discovered brain mechanism. I’m thankful for people like Daniel Coyle, who spend years and years digging through scientific research papers, traveling all around the world (in his case to so-called talent hotbeds, where many talented people were huddled together) and mastering their own craft (writing) to come up with books like this. First of all, it’s a chunked-up experience. Splitting the skill you need to learn in smaller chunks, gives you two advantages: it allows you to perfect them one-by-one, and gives you a constant sense of accomplishment which drives you forward. Master Coaching What are the secrets of the world’s most effective teachers, trainers, and coaches? Discover the four virtues that enable these “talent whisperers” to fuel passion, inspire deep practice, and bring out the best in their students.

Coyle is a sports writer proposing a theory that he masquerades as science, but it's mostly pop-psychology BS. It's sad that this nonsense is published, sadder that people buy into it. Originally thought to be a mere electrical insulator, it has now been discovered that it’s also what determines a nerve signal’s speed and precision.

Workplace Learning is one of the most useful HR training and development books because the guide teaches human resources staff how to nurture a culture of learning. In an ideal office, development does not come solely from the human resources department. Instead, workers continually learn and upskill in the course of the job. The result is a more agile and dynamic workforce that is not afraid to take risks and change. The book mentions case studies of companies with solid learning cultures and explains how leaders can recreate these atmospheres. Workplace Learning clearly lists the conditions HR leaders and managers must create to build workplaces where employees gladly learn and help colleagues learn. These three elements work together within your brain to form myelin, a microscopic neural substance that adds vast amounts of speed and accuracy to your movements and thoughts. Scientists have discovered that myelin might just be the holy grail: the foundation of all forms of greatness, from Michelangelo’s to Michael Jordan’s. 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. Niklas Göke is an author and writer whose work has attracted tens of millions of readers to date. He is also the founder and CEO of Four Minute Books, a collection of over 1,000 free book summaries teaching readers 3 valuable lessons in just 4 minutes each. Design Thinking for Training and Development applies the design approach to the learning and development process. This book champions a human-centered approach to course building. The authors invite readers to devise curriculum the way one might devise a product prototype, with the intent of sparking interest and making the end result as user-friendly as possible. The book follows the product development cycle, relating each step in the process to the journey of delivering the perfect professional lesson. Drawing on cutting-edge neurology and firsthand research gathered on journeys to nine of the world's talent hotbeds—from the baseball fields of the Caribbean to a classical-music academy in upstate New York—Coyle identifies the three key elements that will allow you to develop your gifts and optimize your performance in sports, art, music, math, or just about anything.

Notable Quote: “Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways–operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes–makes you smarter.” Buy Telling Ain’t Training. 9. The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How. by Daniel Coyle A new mindset that literally changes you into believing if it is humanly possible, it is within your reach as well.Master Coaching - The guidance necessary to cultivate world class talent. Coyle interviews various sports and talent coaches and learns that good coaches generally have a toolset of depth of knowledge, perceptiveness of personalities, directly instructive communication skills, and an innate sense of empathy for their students. Not surprisingly, these qualities of master coaching are also a result of years of practice and myelin building.