Daniel Coyle The Talent Code: Greatness Isn´t Born, It´s Grown: Here´s How. Bantam Book/May 2009, New York, New York.
Daniel Cole´s book The Talent Code is a call to all of us-MOOC students, academics, musicians, latinos, workers, blacks, and whites- to get up, go forward, and be brave, that excellence and talent is within our grasps. He throws out the window the belief that talent is produced by the combination of genes and environment, of innate talent. The author also tells us how to do it: showing methods, examples, and studies of how persons like you and me achieved excellence.
Coyle´s claim that talent isn´t born, that it is grown within us is part of new research in Psychology that expounds that dedication and hard work develops our most basic abilities, not the other way around. In other words, excellence comes from what Carol Dweck calls the growth mindset within us, the belief within ourselves that talent grows out of hard work, endless practices, good teaching and persistence.
Unlike Dweck, who presented scientific proofs on achievement and success using randomized expe...
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In Carol Dweck’s article titled, “Brainology” Dweck discusses the different mindsets that students have about intelligence. Some where taught that each person had a set amount of intelligence, while others were trained that intelligence is something they could develop and increase over time. in Dweck’s article she writes, “ It is a belief that intelligence can be developed that opens students to a love of learning, a belief in the power of effort and constrictive, determined reactions to setbacks” (Dweck pg. 2). Dweck is talking about a growth mind-set in which is how students perceive the growth of knowledge and that no one person is born with a certain amount of intelligence, it too can be trained and developed over time. By introducing Dweck’s ideas of a growth mind-set to students, students will enjoy learning and be less devastated by setbacks, because they know they can develop intelligence. Dweck also writes that students with a growth mind-set, “believe that intelligence is something that can be cultivated through effort and education. They
As play auditions got under way in Hillsboro, NH, the director asked Chelsy Starkweather,13, the first and youngest of the night’s auditions, to repeat her monologue, twice.
This can help us to be more successful, teach us of challenging ourselves to reach new heights, never give up and motivate us to do more so to enhance our intelligence. Furthermore, having a growth attitude is not something conceptual or something no one but others can have. It’s an incredible inverse: there are particular things you can do each day to sustain a development attitude. In case I haven't made it clear enough already: skill is something you can cultivate, not merely something you're born with. You can become more creative, more intelligent, more athletic, more artistic, and more successful by focusing on the process, not the outcome. Instead of worrying about winning the championship, commit to the process of training like a champion. It's not about the result, it's about building the identity of the type of person who gets to enjoy those
His Father never had any formal training musically, but whatever gifts he did possess he p[assed unto his son with the most fervent passion even if they were only musical basics.
Talent is the inherent aptitude that a person has, preparation is the development of a skill, and an opportunity is a pathway to success. Talent could be a possible factor for success, but it is often not very significant. For example, as I have stated before, I never really had an inherent ability to communicate with anyone. Only through talking with people did I really develop these skills. Therefore, preparation or just simple practice is far more important than talent. My opportunity to exercise those social skills has allowed me to excel in many of my extracurricular activities, as well as allowing me to form new
The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. -- Hector Berlioz
His anecdotes presented in the article are appropriate in terms of his subject and claims. The author responds back to the naysayers by saying that people only look at the test scores earned in school, but not the actual talent. He says, “Our culture- in Cartesian fashion- separates the body from the mind, so that, for example we assume that the use of tool does not involve abstraction. We reinforce this notion by defining intelligence solely on grades in school and number on IQ tests. And we employ social biases pertaining to a person’s place on the occupational ladder” (279). The author says that instead of looking at people’s talent we judge them by their grades in school or their IQ score, and we also employ them based on these numbers. People learn more each time they perform a task. He talks about blue collared individuals developing multi-tasking and creativity skills as they perform the task they are asked to
Whether giftedness is a product of nature or created through nurture is a controversial discussion. However, Winner (2000), Colangelo & Davis (2003), Mrazik & Dombrowski (2010) all agree the answer lies somewhere in the middle. The idea of giftedness is often evaluated under the premise of expertness or mastery. Do all gifted children become masters or experts of their gifted area? Can people become gifted through extensive training (which is required for expertness)? Winner states that families cannot make a child become gifted, however, certain parenting styles that combine nurturance and stimulation can help maintain and nurture the gift. Winner reviewed many studies on hard work, perseverance, and practice, none of which can explain the origins of giftedness, but are very necessary for high achievement. Colangelo and Davis propose that high intelligence alone will not provide high levels of achievement, but may be necessary for achievement.
From the opposed point of view I believe in "Natural Talent" but it still will only take you so far. Some people are really good at recollecting knowledge, processing, understanding and then applying. Some people are just more prone to have a good artistic eye or hand. To be more athletically built, whether it being petite for gymnastic or bulky for football. Saying that, those skills can still be acquired. If you really care enough about something and you truly want to do it then you can learn. Though you may seem to be at a lesser advantage, starting off what may be perceived as behind, practice makes perfect. Naturally talented still have to put
I’ve learned that it’s better to think out of the box than always stick to the same routine. You can compete in an ever-changing marketplace if you’re always doing the exact same thing. Sometimes you have to let go of what’s not working instead of trying to fix it, as not everything and everyone are fixable. More importantly this case study affirmed that staying true to what you believe in, allowing your natural abilities to shine, and caring about the overall welfare of all parties involved are at the core of being a great
Having opportunities and advantages not readily available to others, being born at a time that enables you to take advantage of opportunities unavailable to those born before or after you, having parents engaged and involved in your effort to success, and the endurance to practice day in and day out makes an outlier. Innate talent is the cornerstone of any success story. But to truly understand one’s journey to success, you need to delve deeper to uncover the true aspects of their success. And in the process, maybe make a case for them as an outlier.
Just because someone can do something with no training, doesn’t mean that other’s can’t learn the same thing with training. Success comes from learning and improving the skills you already have, or don’t have. Within the growth mindset, your abilities and accomplishments are based on the hard work and the dedication it took to achieve your goals (p.71). Believing that your most basic qualities can expand through your efforts, is just a starting point for this type of mindset. Dweck interprets the growth mindset as a way for you to not be afraid of what your true abilities are at any given point, because you can always develop and improve yourself. Your abilities are never set in stone and are always changing
1998 Henry B. & Jocelyn Wallace National Research Symposium on talent development, Scottsdale, AZ: Gifted Psychology Press. 219-227.
Throughout the semester, we have intensively studied how computer science relates to the world around us, through video games, database systems, and artificial intelligence. But what we have not discussed is how all of these subjects in computer science, like pep8, pseudo code, gates and circuits, relate to our artistic world; dance, music, and live theatre. Listening to a piece of music, or as an audience member watching a dance or theatre performance, one assumes that the entire production, stemmed solely from the creativity of those involved. What most do not realize, is the intensive knowledge of computer science that these artists are required to have to make a production happen. The technical crew of a show raises the curtain on technical and theatrical automation, and a musician uses many different software programs to create digital music. But what would happen if these responsibilities were given solely to an intelligent computer? Or moreover, what would happen if a computer was given the aptitude for the same artistic understanding that is required to do these forms of art? This kind of intelligent environment could expand the expressive potential of the arts and in computer science in many ways, but how will it affect the viewers and performers perception of the traditions of music, dance, and theatre? While intelligence technology often enables new ways of creation, it can also harbor a lack of creativity in the arts, and lacks the “real world” knowledge that an artist, musician, dancer, or choreographer has. Exploring how the arts have affected and contributed to creations in artificial intelligence so far, will help us to understand and predict how it will hinder or benefit the creativity and reality of the arts, as ...