Daniel Coyle's article " The Sweet Spot " conveys a powerful idea of learning process. The article talks about how people become good at something, not as an individual but as a community. It is true that practice makes man perfect. Talent is something naturally comes but, skill is something acquired by practice. A great way to expertise an area is through the best practices. Coyle's argument is that the specific kind of practice increase the skill up to ten times faster than the conventional practice. It is inspiring that he wants us to think about why we see bursts of talented people from a certain place or region.
Coyle wants to find out the reason of how Brazil produces the great soccer players? He had visited nine of the world's talent hotbeds to explore the facts, and he found the answer. Here he found a strange homemade game "Futsal" as quench for his thirst of exploration. For an efficient football practices, Brazil uses futsal. Futsal is an indoor- football game in which each team consists only five members. Coyle admits resemblance of those places with certain methods of training, motivation and coaching with new tools to unlock talents. How do unrelated places with no knowledge of each other come up with similar training methods? All he found is explained in a word deep practice. The author by his experience, describes what he saw from the people who've undergone with deep practice. Coyle has taken brain research and real world training into his consideration to explain about deep practice.
In deep practice, the first half process is of great velocity and the other half of stop, slow, struggle and profound of act, then the process of figure it out. Even a microsecond of struggle makes a difference. "It's all about finding the sweet spot". The Sweet spot is the rule of high-velocity learning."There is an optimal between what you know and what you're trying to do. When you find that Sweet Spot, learning takes off". Talent grows in the brain. He wants the readers to play a mind blowing game in the article as he wants to prove it to the readers.
Coyle cites great words from a psychologist Robert Bjork. "Things that appear to be obstacles turn out to be desirable in the long haul" (Pg 18), "We tend to think of our memory as a tape recorder but that's wrong " Memory skills resides in the way our brains are built. Coyle discusses more by the case study he made in psychology. "The more we generate impulses, encountering and overcoming difficulties, the more scaffolding s we build. The more scaffolding we build, the faster we learn" (Pg 19). Coyle also points out about scaffolding in the learning process.
Identify the mistakes is a crucial importance in the learning process. Deep practice helps to fix it and mistakes turn into skills. Techniques are found by the determination of doing it again and again. The people who have pure understanding of the concept and in the deep practice arise as experts or genius.
Even though all the factors outside are same, each student has different aptitudes, abilities and capabilities and not everyone is destined to be great. Coyle demonstrate that passion in a particular region bursts out as talent when deep practice is added there. Transfer talents through genetics seems possible. In the environment the passion with deep practice creates groups and through the generation it creates talented great society. That he says, the code of talent.
This book left a spotless deep thought in our inner minds which is precisely analyzed and witnessed that the greatness isn’t born it’s grown. This article not only changes the way we think about talent but it also equips us to reach our highest potential by deep practice.
Daniel Coyle's article " The Sweet Spot " conveys a powerful idea of learning process. The article talks about how people become good at something, not as an individual but as a community. It is true that practice makes man perfect. Talent is something naturally comes but, skill is something acquired by practice. A great way to expertise an area is through the best practices. Coyle's argument is that the specific kind of practice increase the skill up to ten times faster than the conventional practice. It is inspiring that he wants us to think about why we see bursts of talented people from a certain place or region.
Coyle wants to find out the reason of how Brazil produces the great soccer players? He had visited nine of the world's talent hotbeds to explore the facts, and he found the answer. Here he found a strange homemade game "Futsal" as quench for his thirst of exploration. For an efficient football practices, Brazil uses futsal. Futsal is an indoor- football game in which each team consists only five members. Coyle admits resemblance of those places with certain methods of training, motivation and coaching with new tools to unlock talents. How do unrelated places with no knowledge of each other come up with similar training methods? All he found is explained in a word deep practice. The author by his experience, describes what he saw from the people who've undergone with deep practice. Coyle has taken brain research and real world training into his consideration to explain about deep practice.
In deep practice, the first half process is of great velocity and the other half of stop, slow, struggle and profound of act, then the process of figure it out. Even a microsecond of struggle makes a difference. "It's all about finding the sweet spot". The Sweet spot is the rule of high-velocity learning."There is an optimal between what you know and what you're trying to do. When you find that Sweet Spot, learning takes off". Talent grows in the brain. He wants the readers to play a mind blowing game in the article as he wants to prove it to the readers.
Coyle cites great words from a psychologist Robert Bjork. "Things that appear to be obstacles turn out to be desirable in the long haul" (Pg 18), "We tend to think of our memory as a tape recorder but that's wrong " Memory skills resides in the way our brains are built. Coyle discusses more by the case study he made in psychology. "The more we generate impulses, encountering and overcoming difficulties, the more scaffolding s we build. The more scaffolding we build, the faster we learn" (Pg 19). Coyle also points out about scaffolding in the learning process.
Identify the mistakes is a crucial importance in the learning process. Deep practice helps to fix it and mistakes turn into skills. Techniques are found by the determination of doing it again and again. The people who have pure understanding of the concept and in the deep practice arise as experts or genius.
Even though all the factors outside are same, each student has different aptitudes, abilities and capabilities and not everyone is destined to be great. Coyle demonstrate that passion in a particular region bursts out as talent when deep practice is added there. Transfer talents through genetics seems possible. In the environment the passion with deep practice creates groups and through the generation it creates talented great society. That he says, the code of talent.
This book left a spotless deep thought in our inner minds which is precisely analyzed and witnessed that the greatness isn’t born it’s grown. This article not only changes the way we think about talent but it also equips us to reach our highest potential by deep practice.
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