The Sunday Times bestselling author

'Talent. You've either got it or you haven't.' Not true, actually.

In The Talent Code, award-winning journalist Daniel Coyle draws on cutting-edge research to reveal that, far from being some abstract mystical power fixed at birth, ability really can be created and nurtured.

In the process, he considers talent at work in venues as diverse as a music school in Dallas and a tennis academy near Moscow to demonstrate how the wiring of our brains can be transformed by the way we approach particular tasks. He explains what is really going on when apparently unremarkable people suddenly make a major leap forward. He reveals why some teaching methods are so much more effective than others. Above all, he shows how all of us can achieve our full potential if we set about training our brains in the right way.

Table of Contents

PART I. Deep Practice

Chapter 1: The Sweet Spot

Chapter 2: The Deep Practice Cell

Chapter 3: The Brontes, the Z-Boys, and the Renaissance

Chapter 4: The Three Rules of Deep Practice

PART II. Ignition

Chapter 5: Primal Cues

Chapter 6: The Curacao Experiment

Chapter 7: How to Ignite a Hotbed

Part III. Master Coaching

Chapter 8: The Talent Whisperers

Chapter 9: The Teaching Circuit: A Blueprint

Chapter 10: Tom Martinez and the $60 Million Bet

About the Author

Daniel Coyle is the Sunday Times bestselling author of several books, including The Culture Code, The Talent Code, The Little Book of Talent and Lance Armstrong: Tour de Force. He lives with his wife and four children in Homer, Alaska, and Cleveland Heights, Ohio.