Critical Review "The Talent Code", Daniel Coyle

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Il s'agit d'une "Critical Review" de The Talent Code de Daniel Coyle, que vous pouvez trouver en suivant ce lien : https://issuu.com/rabberson/docs/the_talent_code_chapter1

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[...] Finally, the author reveals the reason why Brazilian footballers are, to him, the best. The key of the mystery lies in futsal : a miniature version of the original football, which can be played outside as well as inside, and which, with only 5 players in each team, enables them to practice more efficiently, to touch the ball more often, and is all the more useful as the ball is heavier. We eventually understand that what the author calls "the sweet spot", lies, in this context, in futsal : it's a lever that prompts players to delve into deep practice without even realizing it. [...]

[...] * The undeniable skill of Daniel Coyle is to convey, through his book, optimism and benevolence. The flowing style enables the reader to travel the world with him and easily plunge into the different experiences the author describes. More than the fact that Daniel Coyle is a remarkable storyteller, his power lies in the fact that, as far as the content is concerned, from the very first chapter, what he demonstrates eventually seems so obvious that the reader may wonder why he hadn't thought about it before. [...]

[...] The debate is still vivid today. But anyway, Daniel Coyle's book conveys a positive philosophy which is, to me, necessary nowadays : The fact that with the love of effort, just like Barack Obama's famous "Yes, we can", man can move mountains. More generally speaking, a sentence from Coyle's first chapter struck me as food for thought, when he mentioned persons failing while training : "it was as if the herd of deer suddenly encountered a hillside coated with ice". [...]

[...] The Talent Code. Feeling happy to succeed has always been something any human being would like to achieve. However, as the journalist and bestselling author Daniel Coyle puts it in The Talent Code's subtitle : "greatness isn't born, it's grown". Although this statement is quite up-to-date in our modern society (considering the number of books published about how to fulfill one's life), we can't help remembering the words of the famous Thomas Edison who, as early as the nineteenth century, considered that : "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. [...]

[...] ] et de le faire avec attention, persévérance [ . Ce n'est pas le nom du sommet que nous avons gravi qui nous transforme, mais la présence et l'amour que nous avons mis dans la marche." [1]"what matters is not to climb the mountain, but to travel along the way, and to do it carefully, with perseverance. It is not the name of the summit we climbed that will transform us, but the presence and love we have put in travelling along the way". [...]