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Nowadays everyone wants to do everything better to found success in a easier way, we want to find perfection by improving our selves. Daniel Cloyne defends that talent is not a mysterious gift that respond to the law of chance or genetics it can be developed, How? Are we born with that magic power? or do we developed during our lives? There are studies that defend that just few people in our society are born with the magic power approximately just the 9% Why? Does this explain that in just one ridiculous tennis court without any resources, could develope the bests tennis players of the world?
Review: Dan coyle. (04/28/2009). THE SWEET SPOT. In Coyle (Ed), The talent code (pp. 22). : Bantam; 1 edition. Summarize:
In this chapter,
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If we compare two people's leaning curve on surfing skills with the same age, same beach, same time, same skills. are they going to learn to surf at the same level?. Another questionable aspect of this chapter is that if we fail we become stronger. In part he has a point because we learn from our mistakes, but the way he explained it sounds like we must fail in order to archive success, I prefer to avoid errors and try to keep going on the right way. The writing style and expressions that the author use is suitable to the general public, but for explaining an idea he provide us with too many examples and they can confuse the reader from the point of that idea. Despite these criticism, I agree in some arguments of the writer, such as the concept of deep intensity. Most of the time it is not a matter of effort because intensity takes a big role in our lives and I experienced with the example of the list of words A and B that he show us on the book. I like the way that the author involves the reader with the book using nature, leisure, sports, history and aspects of the brain, also the scenarios that Daniel Coyle uses on the chapter are (real), and that makes easy to understand and feel his arguments using international

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