Book tokens? Money stashed in Christmas cards on the mantlepiece? Sales sales sales?
Unsure on good reads, but wanting suggestions?
We'll offer up a couple of options based on recent meetings/discussions that have had their topics reflected on these pages over 2011.
First up is based around the neurophysiology of learning and the identification of talent, and thereby discussing of the nurture versus nature debate.
'The Talent Code' was written by journalist Daniel Coyle several years ago. He visited nine of the world's talent hothouses that have produced amounts of talented individuals disproportional to the size of the venue examining behavioural and environmental .aspects including values, anatomy & family background.
Coyle found a pattern to skill acquisition for them all - from baseball in Caribbean to music camps of New York State. Myelin is the root of all talent and the fundemental mechanisms through which the architecture of the brain responds & changes as it acquires skill through meaningful practice can be utilised even in adulthood & certainly with the next generation of children:the electrochemistry of the brain actually gets thicker.
Myelin is a partially fatty tissue that wraps electrical tissue in the brain much like electrical tape preventing a leakage of voltage. Myelin is no longer considered to be inert, but it actually grows with practice proportional to the number of hours practised.
There are echoes of Malcolm Gladwell in the necessity for reinforcement and the drive for meaningful practice, although Coyle discusses fun and unconciously developed awesomeness.
Gladwell's consideration of the '10,000' hours rule, readily achieved through 20 hours a week of meaningful practice for 10 years, is reinforced by Coyle who stated recently at UKSEM in London that this 'Golden Thread' of training for their craft is essential, and that practice is seriously undervalued.
At certain moments learning velocity increases, and this is where the concept of 'Reach' is best seen, as mistakes are not errors but identifications of appropriate information made on the edge of their ability. These considerations really fascinate, and call into question the suitability of 'Competitive Dad' on the sidelines of schools & clubs across Britain every weekend where mistakes are frowned upon by coaches & parents alike, athletes and players fearful of error-making.
There are ways of maximising reachfulness, and we may discuss these in a blog in 2012.
Daniel Coyle can also be found online at thetalentcode.com
Unsure on good reads, but wanting suggestions?
We'll offer up a couple of options based on recent meetings/discussions that have had their topics reflected on these pages over 2011.
First up is based around the neurophysiology of learning and the identification of talent, and thereby discussing of the nurture versus nature debate.
Coyle found a pattern to skill acquisition for them all - from baseball in Caribbean to music camps of New York State. Myelin is the root of all talent and the fundemental mechanisms through which the architecture of the brain responds & changes as it acquires skill through meaningful practice can be utilised even in adulthood & certainly with the next generation of children:the electrochemistry of the brain actually gets thicker.
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There are echoes of Malcolm Gladwell in the necessity for reinforcement and the drive for meaningful practice, although Coyle discusses fun and unconciously developed awesomeness.
Gladwell's consideration of the '10,000' hours rule, readily achieved through 20 hours a week of meaningful practice for 10 years, is reinforced by Coyle who stated recently at UKSEM in London that this 'Golden Thread' of training for their craft is essential, and that practice is seriously undervalued.
At certain moments learning velocity increases, and this is where the concept of 'Reach' is best seen, as mistakes are not errors but identifications of appropriate information made on the edge of their ability. These considerations really fascinate, and call into question the suitability of 'Competitive Dad' on the sidelines of schools & clubs across Britain every weekend where mistakes are frowned upon by coaches & parents alike, athletes and players fearful of error-making.
There are ways of maximising reachfulness, and we may discuss these in a blog in 2012.
Daniel Coyle can also be found online at thetalentcode.com
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