The Talent Code

Myelin is:

• The insulation that wraps nerve fibers and increases signal strength, speed, and accuracy.

• A substance a few are born with, which explains why some excel and others do not.

• A new pharmaceutical that can help when building new skills.

Every human movement, thought, or feeling is:

• A precisely timed electric signal traveling through a chain of neurons.

• Learned from stimulus around the learner.

• Basically just neurons and synapses residing in our brain.

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True development and maximization of your skill sets requires:

• Deep Practice

• Firing and optimizing neural circuits (myelination)

• Recognition and Correction of Errors

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Deep Practice cannot be sustained long enough to benefit the individual without:

• Ignition of Passion

• Passionate Lectures

• Daily Practice

• Coddling/Enabling when Necessary

Ignition (or motivation) can basically be summed-up as:

• Powerful and Unconscious triggers in the brain.

• Unconscious mechanisms that quietly govern our choices.

• Brain cues as to where to spend energy now.

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Some of the most powerful triggers of ignition are:

• Connections

• Primal Cues

• Smaller and indirect

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Master Coaching (or Teaching) has what characteristics?

(Choose all that apply)

• Delivery of targeted information.

• Precise timing of information.

• Honing of necessary circuits for desired skill.

• Enabler of deep practice.