Unlocking the Talent Code With Dan Coyle
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Dan Coyle, author of The Talent Code joins us to talk about the common threads of people who perform at the highest levels.
Highlights
- Assignments that sparked Dan’s interest talent
- Ways to develop a tendency to challenge the status quo
- The power of immersing yourself in multiple domains
- Lessons in developing talent from a skateboard park
- Paying attention to the moments when lightning strikes
- Why struggle makes us smarter
- Developing a process for achieving mastery
Quotes
You need to have the right conditions for lightning to form
You don’t get better by listening. You get better by doing
Struggle makes you smarter.
When you look across high performers, they all have a huge variety of things they did.
When you do deep practice, you grow thicker layers of myelin
Books and Resources
The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Guitar Zero by Gary Marcus
Daniel Coyle is the New York Times bestselling author of The Little Book of Talent, The Talent Code, Lance Armstrong’s War, and Hardball: A Season in Projects.
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| 0:00.0 | Think about the environments that light people up the most and that create the most motivation and if we are going to sort of pick an ideal environment that does that I would say it's a skateboard park like kids go to a skateboard park and they get really really good at |
| 0:13.0 | skateboarding in a short amount of time. |
| 0:15.0 | You know, it is incredibly, incredibly motivating for certain kids. |
| 0:20.0 | Why? |
| 0:21.0 | You know, why? |
| 0:22.0 | If we could teach algebra like kids learn to skateboard in a skateboard park would be really, really good at algebra, right? |
| 0:27.0 | But what are the ingredients of that environment of that learning space? |
| 0:30.0 | And the ingredients seem to be these vivid models of what you want to be, not of like who you |
| 0:37.0 | admire, but of the dude you want to become, right? I don't just like admire that |
| 0:41.8 | skateboarder. I want to do that trick and I want to be as cool as him you know in every way I want to be that guy |
| 0:47.4 | And so when that identity piece gets put into the into the equation I think that lightning is a lot more likely to strike. |
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