The Talent Code written by Daniel Coyle says that developing talent requires three elements: deep practice, ignition, and master coaching. The central theme of the book would be the concept that talent comes down to practice and not innate traits, genetics or environment. Ｔａｌｅｎｔ ＆ Ｍｙｅｌｉｎ Thoughts and movements are the results of electrical impulses moving through our brain to our muscles. A thicker layer of myelin allows these electrical impulses to move faster. Growth of myelin occurs when you make and correct mistakes as it causes new nerve circuits to fire, which results in the thickening of myelin. Ｄｅｅｐ Ｐｒａｃｔｉｃｅ Deep practice requires struggle, attention, focus, making mistakes and correcting those mistakes while setting a goal that exceeds your current ability. Focus and attention will be critical; you need to be consistently noticing your mistakes, correcting the errors and then repeating the process. Chunking skills up into smaller units will allow you to accelerate the method of deep practice. Ｉｇｎｉｔｉｏｎ Ignition or motivation provides the energy to overcome the uncomfortable and tiresome struggle that you will experience during deep practice. Therefore, deep practice will require a sustained level of high motivation and energy which then gets converted into skill. Ignition will be triggered by an external cue that will give you the desire to achieve a skill and the belief that it will be possible. Ｍａｓｔｅｒ Ｃｏａｃｈｉｎｇ Talent will rarely develop on its own without a teacher, coach or guide. Master coaching often doesn't look like the typical stereotype of great coaches giving boisterous motivational speeches. Usually, it seems more subtle, with selectively targeted feedback containing precise information on how to correct errors and improve performance. The continuous feedback process assists the athlete in the reproduction of deep practice. Ｓｕｍｍａｒｙ Talent becomes dependant on the growth of myelin. The growth can occur with the process of deep practice where you make mistakes and correct them, require ignition to begin and motivation to continue and encouraged by master coaching. 🌊🏆🔥 #thetalentcode Coyle, D. (2010). The Talent Code https://www.instagram.com/p/CDD8noAJiPv/?igshid=f27ya3w6h34s
