Dan Coyle, author of The Talent Code joins us to talk about the common threads of people who perform at the highest levels.HighlightsAssignments that sparked Dan’s interest talentWays to develop a tendency to challenge the status quoThe power of immersing yourself in multiple domainsLessons in developing talent from a skateboard parkPaying attention to the moments when lightning strikesWhy struggle makes us smarterDeveloping a process for achieving masteryQuotesYou need to have the right conditions for lightning to formYou don’t get better by listening. You get better by doingStruggle 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 myelinBooks and ResourcesThe Talent Code by Daniel CoyleThe Right Stuff by Tom WolfeGuitar Zero by Gary MarcusDaniel 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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