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Talent isn’t a gift we’re born with – it’s a signal we’ve been reading completely wrong. Author Daniel Coyle breaks down the common traits shared by successful people, and why environment, not innate ability, is the variable that ties them all together.
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About Daniel Coyle:
Daniel Coyle is the New York Times bestselling author of The Culture Code, which was named Best Business Book of the Year by Bloomberg, BookPal, and Business Insider. Coyle has served as an advisor to many high-performing organizations, including the Navy SEALs, Microsoft, Google, and the Cleveland Guardians. His other books include The Talent Code, The Secret Race, The Little Book of Talent, and Hardball: A Season in the Projects, which was made into a movie starring Keanu Reeves. Coyle was raised in Anchorage, Alaska, and now lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, during the school year and in Homer, Alaska, during the summer with his wife, Jenny, and their four children.
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He is wrong when he talks about futsal. If you check the wikipedia page, Brazil is indeed number one, but is closely followed by Spain, or Argentina, which just from a demographic point of view (brazil having 4x the population), it would make sense.
Great narrative, wrong facts
I rarely comment on these kinds of videos but this was extremely fascinating and eye-opening. Thank you honestly for this information. So much value and wisdom in this 20 minute video.
Brazil aren't that great at football any more. They've been overtaken by wealthy nations with really good facilities.
The key idea is very simple, so simple that it doesnt even need a 20 minute video.
It's 'play', and not just play – systematic play.
Thanks❤
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Intense reaching? Wtf are you talking about?
Disney's return on the market when they fired the woke ceo and give up woke trend , and woke employee
This is definitely a certified watch-later and will be watched in a month.
To be honest, nothing new
The longer you look at his face, the weirder it gets
This is Gold ❤
Thank you! Very corresponding to Lev Vygotsky, The zone of proximal development шт some aspects.
What he just described is the exact description of what goes on at The Art Students League of New York. They figured this our 150 years ago
What if I don't have ability to learn from my mistakes? (Audhd)
Appreciate our shoutout but keep in mind Hungry at that time was literally the best team in the world. Aranycsapat lost one game in five years
16:00 I can relate to this, I was all of my life impressed by VSRG players, last year opened the game and played about an average of 1.5h a day since then, and became one of them. Even though I'm good at nothing else but it's a great inspiration that just being fueled by a simple thing over the years can fuel me for a whole year playing consistently.
Perhaps a moment of realisation of mine was prior of me starting it, where I just thought that nothing is hard, literally anything can be learnt, I don't know what changed but since then I could learn anything quite easily in comparison to me just several years ago where I grind something for whole months with passion with nearly no immediate direct growth.
16:02 I think this is why Cristiano Ronaldo got me into football. There’s just something about the way he thinks, and sees the world that I relate to and feel connected with. I am not the type of person to get interested in sports, but his mindset spark something in me that got me kicking balls at our home by myself, cause its the only way I could play the sport.
14:10 Guilds were doing this in the Medieval era also and not just in Italy. Funding the arts by the Church in Italy clearly helped that region a lot.
Wonder how relevant all this is in the age of AI?
his voice is the default AI voice 😂
22:18 “No AI slop. No ragebait. Just big ideas for curious people.” This is the most AI generated sentence ever
Workshops work! That's why, if you're an expert, you should do more group practice online. Your people get to learn and you get the leverage to teach.
how could this be translated in to learning how to code
Why no shipping outside US? I want the membership. I want the magazine. 100% I would buy it. But I'm in the UK.
I am a 51 yo skateboarder, i totally agree with the learning process abilities that skateboard bring to me. At work i am the best élément of m'y team, i have more focus, stamina, and résilience. A mistake for me is a way to improve and is not a bad thing when for my colleagues a mistake is a failure. Skateboarding made me stronger in many area of m'y life especially when i have to learn new process.
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"What stands in the way becomes the way"
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Making 20% mistake 8:38 that's new I dunno if doable in real life lol
Dude means well. But upon further investigation and more rigorous research a lot of this is reaching or rounding a bit too much. Also we have some logical fallacies and using his own reasoning reveals some cognitive traps. Popsychology doesn't beat real neuroscience and raw leverage. And they're definitely is stuff like neurological ceilings. Nonetheless it is a good conversation starter
The best thing I've done is closing my eyes, dreaming intently of me mastering the skill in a loop with a reference of a video. Being the body or the personality right there.
In soccer, it's watching Messi play and getting in his POV, his body at that moment. I'd stand up and feel the actions come naturally.
Try it yourself. Close your eyes, and imagine a person using your non-dominant hand. Your left one most likely. Imagine them picking groceries, throwing a baseball with different postures or writing with that hand.
Feel it in that side of your body. The left side of your body and head as if you were trying to move that side of your body. It feels so real. I did it for 10-30 seconds and could finally throw a baseball with my left hand.
Ironically I also take my sh*t music and cut it up
Where is the original idea? This is just a common sense. You learn from your mistake but you’re tight as a little misleading. You’re analogies is very poor.
Brilliant
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For years, I kept searching for a way of manifesting that actually made sense to me. Then I randomly found Kael AZ and his book, I bought it out out of curiosity. The result described me almost perfectly, and I’ve looked at manifesting completely differently ever since. I’d recommend it to anyone who feels like they’ve hit a wall.
This was a great watch
Reminds me of a capstone course where we were taught to “slow read” and investigate the writing one phrase (or word) at a time.
It was intoxicating. I wrote an entire essay on the word, “incandescence.” I still think about that word to this day.
Thanks for the reminder, and the idea that struggle should be “made noble.” It’s where the real work is done, anyway. 🧡