The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else

by Daniel Coyle

If we were to diagram the talent code, it would look like this. The useful thing about this model is that it's as flexible as myelin itself, applying to all skills, in contexts as small as families and as large as nations. I'd like to end by briefly showing how the code applies to other areas of life, specifically to the ways in which we educate our kids, work, grow older, parent—and even master social skills. We began this book with the promise to use the talent code as a pair of X-ray glasses. Now we'll see how well it works as a telescope.