The Talent Code Dan Coyle Summary

Introduction:
Nowadays everyone wants to do everything better to found success in a easier way, we want to find perfection by improving our selves. Daniel Cloyne defends that talent is not a mysterious gift that respond to the law of chance or genetics it can be developed, How? Are we born with that magic power? or do we developed during our lives? There are studies that defend that just few people in our society are born with the magic power approximately just the 9% Why? Does this explain that in just one ridiculous tennis court without any resources, could develope the bests tennis players of the world?
Review: Dan coyle. (04/28/2009). THE SWEET SPOT. In Coyle (Ed), The talent code (pp. 22). : Bantam; 1 edition. Summarize:
In this chapter,
the author starts exploring the different and curious places where he can find different types of talent in order to study them, he shows us the example of the Brazilian football or tennis in Moscow those are different scenarios with different talents, but all of them have something in common.
When we see that the people start practising a specific task on an effective way we automatically attribute with willpower or maybe to the power of concentration, but this ideas are not related at all with success. This chapter analyses the people that are in the 'hotbeds' of talent they know that that they will fail, and is not something bad for them. On the other hand we all think that when we fail or do something wrong we relate this act with a negative behaviour, here the author defends the opposite. He turns that negative situation into a positive one, How ? by learning from that mistake, getting experience from it and becoming stronger by improving yourself.
To support this idea, the author makes mistakes part of the experience known as deep intensity. It is presented as a tool, we change the mistakes into abilities, they will make you smarter.
In order to understand the concept of deep intensity, the writer provides us an example which is a list of words presented in two columns A and B.
The difference between them is that in column B there is a space between some letters, because of that space we stop a microsecond on that word and will remember them more easily because is not a matter of effort is about intensity.
Robert Bjorks argument is an interesting and challenging one: : “There's an optimal gab between what you know and what you're trying to do, when you find that sweet spot, learning takes off” (p. 11). In other words, we see that when you practice deeply, you use time more efficiently it is not a matter of how much time one spends on something but how efficient one is during a set amount of time. In the end it is all about practice. Small efforts can result into big achievement. This is the great secret of the Brazilian football, the example that Daniel Coyle gives to us. The breathtaking abilities of Brazilian football players. Most of all the great Brazilian players played football during their childhood, first in the streets of Brazil and then in football clubs. They spend thousands of hours on this activity. If we compare this players with others, there is a big difference because Brazilian are able to touch the ball six times faster, so they have the ability of learning faster.

Evaluation: Daniel Coyle defend the idea of, that the talent is not just a gift, he agree that deep practice cause very good results. Daniels Coyle argument is an interesting and challenging one, but In my opinion I can see that many of the main ideas of the author are superficial and inflated, is too general he is giving big stereotypes and there are not based on a solid base. If we analyse the example of the Brazilian players that they have better abilities and skills than others players just because their circumstances and hours of training. So then if anyone train the same hours of football in Brazil like them, anyone could become a professional football player like Ronaldo? I defend that people learn at different rates, and take in consideration the aptitudes of everyone.
If we compare two people's leaning curve on surfing skills with the same age, same beach, same time, same skills. are they going to learn to surf at the same level?. Another questionable aspect of this chapter is that if we fail we become stronger. In part he has a point because we learn from our mistakes, but the way he explained it sounds like we must fail in order to archive success, I prefer to avoid errors and try to keep going on the right way. The writing style and expressions that the author use is suitable to the general public, but for explaining an idea he provide us with too many examples and they can confuse the reader from the point of that idea. Despite these criticism, I agree in some arguments of the writer, such as the concept of deep intensity. Most of the time it is not a matter of effort because intensity takes a big role in our lives and I experienced with the example of the list of words A and B that he show us on the book. I like the way that the author involves the reader with the book using nature, leisure, sports, history and aspects of the brain, also the scenarios that Daniel Coyle uses on the chapter are (real), and that makes easy to understand and feel his arguments using international
examples.

Conclusion: In summary, Daniel Coyle book or at least the extract I read is an interesting and fast book to read. The author makes you rethink about the idea of talent with some deep and interesting arguments. I learned much about the concept that he mentioned on the chapter"deep practice".I would recommend this book specially to teachers because in part it could help understanding better the students and have a better general view in the way of teaching