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1-on-1: How Talent Is Made and Not
Born
Daniel Cole explains how talent develops
Sandra Bienkowski

Daniel Coyle is the author of The Talent Code: Greatness Isnt
Born. Its Grown. Heres How. He spent more than a year traveling
and studying areas of the world that produce extraordinary
talents, like cellist Yo-Yo Ma and baseball great Manny Ramirez.
He learned through his research in these talent hotbeds that
supreme talent isnt born; its made. Coyle, a contributing editor
for Outside magazine and author of the New York Times best-
selling Lance Armstrongs War, discussed his findings with
SUCCESS.

SUCCESS: In the SUCCESS magazine article, you talked about
how talent is really developed from deep practice and not natural
talent. How do people discover their talents?

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Daniel Coyle: It is as mysterious as love in our lives. Why does love
happen? Why do you fall in love with something and become a writer,
a salesmen or a ballerina? What the science tells us is that it happens
all at once. Its almost like an immune response, and once it happens,
it happens all at once and unlocks a tsunami of psychological energy.

S: Do people have a natural inclination toward certain gifts?
DC: I think that exists. Take Yo-Yo Ma as an example. He has certain
inclinations that appear to be genetic. But what the science shows us
is that what is undervalued is the love. Why are they really doing it?
Why is that kid banging on the piano? Love is the motivation system
being activated when a 2-year-old kid decides hes going to become a
piano player. The remarkable thing isnt how fast he can move his
fingers; its that he thinks about it all the time.

S: Your research shows that people often discover talents when
they have a modelsomeone in their environment they want to
be like.
DC: Where do children get the idea that they want to be musicians
when they are just 7 or 8 years old? Usually there is a model in their
environment. When you see these talent hotbeds bloom, they tend to
bloom in the following way: You will see one great performer come out
of somewhere, and then, a few years later, there will be two, and six
and then 10 and 40. Thats the algorithm. The one is the North Star,
the one who creates the chemistry, the power and the growth of neuro
broadband. You see the one and then the dozen. You have younger
people looking at someone and saying, Thats who I want to be.
What ignites the progress is a vision of their ideal future selves.

S: You talk about condensed practice in your book as a means to
increase skills and talents faster. How does that work?
DC: In soccer, for instance, Brazilians have found a beautiful way to
increase skills. Its a very compressed game called futebol de salao,
which basically means soccer in the room. They get 600 percent more
touches of the ball. They have compressed passing lanes. They are
basically firing, failing and fixing a lot more than American kids are. It
is almost sped up. If you look at it from a neuro perspective, it explains
the gap in world soccer as plain as can be.
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You see these kinds of compressions in other ways too. Toyota is a
good example. When they train people to go on assembly lines, they
do it with toys. Instead of being all spread out on an assembly line,
they are sitting around a conference table next to each other and
making their assembly lines move with these little toys. They are doing
the same thing the Brazilians are doing neurologically. They have
figured out how to compress the action and then practice in a really
compressed way.
For more insights from Daniel Coyles The Talent Code, visit
thetalentcode.com.
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fred a year ago
i believe he said 'neural' not 'neuro'.


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fred a year ago
i believe he said 'neural' not 'neuro'.


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i believe he said 'neural' not 'neuro'.


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