Dan Coyle, author of The Talent Code joins us to talk about the common threads of people who perform at the highest levels.,

Assignments that sparked Dan’s interest talent

Ways to develop a tendency to challenge the status quo

The power of immersing yourself in multiple domains

Lessons in developing talent from a skateboard park

Paying attention to the moments when lightning strikes

Why struggle makes us smarter

Developing a process for achieving mastery

You need to have the right conditions for lightning to form

You don’t get better by listening. You get better by doing

Struggle 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 myelin

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Daniel 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.