Daniel Coyle The Sweet Spot
Since ancient times, humanity has been fascinated by the origin of greatness and also how does it work. In the chapter “ The Sweet Spot”, author
Daniel Coyle brings new munitions to the debate and shows colorful impressions of a particular training tool for achieving greatness called “deep practice”. Coyle takes the path of a globetrotter to find such nine tiny great places across different geographies, name as “Talent hotbeds” or “The Chicken-wire Harvards”, where the practice of “deep practice” makes the big difference.
While trying to figure out how talent emerges, Coyle found nothing like regularity or a single pattern in place.
Coyle states,
“The nine hotbeds I visited shared almost nothing except the happy unlikeliness of their existence. Each one was …show more content…
But how?” [12].
While watching Brunio, an eleven years old Brazilian soccer player, training the famous elastico, Coyle recognizes that the greatness of the Brazilian soccer is beyond the traditional explanation of the combination of genes and environment.
Elastico is nothing else that “a ball-handling maneuver ……Done properly, the move gives the viewer the impression that the player has the ball on a rubber band” [13], according to Coyle. More than genes and environment, the main requirement to learn the move is to fail, stop and think. And then, start again until the player assimilates the move.For Coyle, the benefits of deep practice apply not only to train soccer players but also pilots. The idea of pilot training 1934 was deeply conceived in the belief that great pilots are gifted. In other words, it could not be taught. Coyle describes the story of airmail fiasco that made possible a meeting between President FDR and
General Benjamin Foulois at the White House in 1934 regarding the high mortality rate of Air Corp pilots.
Coyle writes,
“ “General”, the president said fiercely, “when are these airmail killing going to
Daniel Coyle brings new munitions to the debate and shows colorful impressions of a particular training tool for achieving greatness called “deep practice”. Coyle takes the path of a globetrotter to find such nine tiny great places across different geographies, name as “Talent hotbeds” or “The Chicken-wire Harvards”, where the practice of “deep practice” makes the big difference.
While trying to figure out how talent emerges, Coyle found nothing like regularity or a single pattern in place.
Coyle states,
“The nine hotbeds I visited shared almost nothing except the happy unlikeliness of their existence. Each one was …show more content…
But how?” [12].
While watching Brunio, an eleven years old Brazilian soccer player, training the famous elastico, Coyle recognizes that the greatness of the Brazilian soccer is beyond the traditional explanation of the combination of genes and environment.
Elastico is nothing else that “a ball-handling maneuver ……Done properly, the move gives the viewer the impression that the player has the ball on a rubber band” [13], according to Coyle. More than genes and environment, the main requirement to learn the move is to fail, stop and think. And then, start again until the player assimilates the move.For Coyle, the benefits of deep practice apply not only to train soccer players but also pilots. The idea of pilot training 1934 was deeply conceived in the belief that great pilots are gifted. In other words, it could not be taught. Coyle describes the story of airmail fiasco that made possible a meeting between President FDR and
General Benjamin Foulois at the White House in 1934 regarding the high mortality rate of Air Corp pilots.
Coyle writes,
“ “General”, the president said fiercely, “when are these airmail killing going to