The tactical approach towards skill-building is only one part. The other is the student's attitude towards their first lesson or experience. Three key factors fuel motivation and the love for the craft:<ul><li>Psychological identity: If one already possess the identity "I am a musician" from the start, they are more likely to take the actions needed to make that happen.</li><li>Long-term focus: A study of musicians showed that students who came to their first lesson with a long-term commitment outperformed those with a short-term commitment by 400%.</li><li>Emotional attachment.</li></ul>

Ignition - sparking your initial motivation

Choose one goal beyond your present abilities.<ol><li>Chunk it up: Break the thing you're trying to master down into chunks and master them one by one, then put them back together.</li><li>Repetition: Repeat skills slowly and ensure to do them properly. Mistakes show a lack of competence in that area and should be viewed as an opportunity to improve. Repetition of mistakes will train the mistakes.</li><li>Feel the struggle: Pick a target, reach for it, and adjust as you go. </li></ol>

The rules of deep practice

When we hear of 'muscle memory,' it really describes our brain's neurological circuitry. The brain circuits are connected and insulated by a substance called myelin. When we practice or engage in any skill, we stimulate myelin growth. Talent is the result of deep practice. The best way to learn is with deliberate practice where you push yourself to the edge constantly. The more you practice deliberately, the faster and better you learn

Mastery is about deep practice

Where you end up in your field, whether it's sports, arts, or business, is not a result of your genes and your environment.  Although talent feels and looks predestined, we have more control over what skills we develop and more potential than we might ever imagine.

Your talent is yours to code

Very few people can develop their talents by themselves. Everyone has teachers or coaches who train, motivate, teach and inspire.<ul><li>The best teachers are able to understand each student as an individual and customise their training to fit each student's requirements.</li><li>The teacher must be an example of what they're teaching, not saying one thing and demonstrating another.</li><li>The mentor-student relationship is a complex feedback loop. Top coaches continually observe what is working and readjust their own approach.</li><li>Trust: The student must be able to trust their teachers both for competence and integrity.</li></ul>

Coaching

Although talent feels and looks predestined, in fact we have a good deal of control over what skills we develop, and we have more potential than we might ever presume to guess.

Talent is the result of deep practice. In his book, Daniel Coyle looks at extraordinary performers, shows what made them great and give insights into true mastery.

This book shows you how to grow talent by tapping into a newly discovered brain mechanism. Drawing on cutting-edge neurology and firsthand research gathered on journeys to nine of the world's talent hotbeds, author Coyle identifies the three key elementsthat will allow you to develop your gifts and optimize your performance in sports, art, music, math, or just about anything.--From publisher description.

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What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? This groundbreaking work provides readers with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others. Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying to improve your golf swing, this revolutionary book shows you how to grow talent by tapping into a newly discovered brain mechanism.Drawing on cutting-edge neurology and firsthand research gathered on journeys to nine of the world’s talent hotbeds—from the baseball fields of the Caribbean to a classical-music academy in upstate New York—Coyle identifies the three key elements that will allow you to develop your gifts and optimize your performance in sports, art, music, math, or just about anything.• Deep Practice Everyone knows that practice is a key to success. What everyone doesn’t know is that specific kinds of practice can increase skill up to ten times faster than conventional practice.• Ignition We all need a little motivation to get started. But what separates truly high achievers from the rest of the pack? A higher level of commitment—call it passion—born out of our deepest unconscious desires and triggered by certain primal cues. Understanding how these signals work can help you ignite passion and catalyze skill development.• Master Coaching What are the secrets of the world’s most effective teachers, trainers, and coaches? Discover the four virtues that enable these “talent whisperers” to fuel passion, inspire deep practice, and bring out the best in their students.These three elements work together within your brain to form myelin, a microscopic neural substance that adds vast amounts of speed and accuracy to your movements and thoughts. Scientists have discovered that myelin might just be the holy grail: the foundation of all forms of greatness, from Michelangelo’s to Michael Jordan’s. The good news about myelin is that it isn’t fixed at birth; to the contrary, it grows, and like anything that grows, it can be cultivated and nourished.Combining revelatory analysis with illuminating examples of regular people who have achieved greatness, this book will not only change the way you think about talent, but equip you to reach your own highest potential.

Daniel Coyle is the author of the upcoming book The Culture Code (January 2018). He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code, The Little Book of Talent, The Secret Race (with Tyler Hamilton), and other books. Winner (with Hamilton) of the 2012 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Prize, he is a contributing editor for Outside magazine, and also works a special advisor to the Cleveland Indians. Coyle lives in Cleveland, Ohio during the school year and in Homer, Alaska, during the summer with his wife Jen, and their four children.

DANIEL COYLE

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