The Little Book of Talent, (Hardcover)

from lpmejia

This book is a short, concise, but practical look at concrete ways one can pick up or improve on a skill. It isn't terribly long, but it doesn't need to be. In all honesty, while reading it I was reminded of those "top 10" blog posts that have a way of turning into viral internet memes. I appreci...

from Course8

This handbook contains 52 rules for developing or improving any skill. It focuses on best practices that the author observed at what he calls 'talent hotbeds'. These are schools, training camps, and academies that have produced a high number of world class athletes, musicians, performers and acad...

from lbeaumont

Daniel Coyle's previous book The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How, apparently needed a junior companion. He compiled notes taken while researching Talent Code into the 52 tips for improving your skills that make up this book. Some tips are new and interesting, such as: "C...

from cwflatt

Easy quick read book to motivate you when needed. This book has great simple tips you can us immediately to build your confidence or courage to take on a challenge at work or school. If you have not read the authors larger book, this one is a good sampler for the more in depth book. As an instruc...

from DetailMuse

From the epigraph: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. --Aristotle Along the lines of Michael Pollan's distillation of his excellent The Omnivore's Dilemma into In Defense of Food and even further into Food Rules, so Daniel Coyle boils down his The Talent ...