The Talent Code

Greatness Isn t Born. It s Grown. here s CoyleBantam BooksThe Talent Codethe Talent codeA Bantam Book / May 2009 Published byBantam DellA Division of Random House, York, New YorkAll rights 2009 by Daniel CoyleBook design by Glen M. EdelsteinBantam Books and the Rooster colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataCoyle, Talent code : Greatness isn t born. It s grown. Here s how. / Daniel bibliographical references and 978-0-553-80684-7 (hardcover) ISBN 978-0-553-90649-3 (ebook)1. Ability. 2. Motivation (Psychology) I. dc222008047674 Printed in the United States of AmericaPublished simultaneously in 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 BVGCHICKEN-WIREHARVARDSIn December 2006 I began visiting tiny places that produceEverest-size amounts of Talent .* My journey began at a ram-shackle tennis court in Moscow, and over the next fourteenmonths it took me to a soccer field in S o Paolo, Brazil, a vocalstudio in Dallas, Texas, an inner-city school in San Jose, Cali -fornia, a run-down music academy in New York s Adirondacks,a baseball-mad island in the Caribbean, and a handful of otherplaces so small, humble, and titanically accomplished that afriend dubbed them the chicken-wire Harvards.

tors: a friendly climate, a deep passion for soccer, and a genet-ically diverse population of 190 million, 40 percent of whom are desperately poor and long to escape through “the beauti-

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