The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle, Narrated by John Farrell (Read via Audible.com)

After reflecting on this book for a few weeks, I am unsure of how I view this book.

Farrell presents the idea of Myelin, and how it antidotally relates to mini mecca’s of talent all over the world at different times throughout history. This book feel like Ken Robinson’s book ‘The Element’ in many ways. Just replace the term element with myelin, and things line up very closely in many ways (but far from exact). That is however why I am on the fence on this book. This book did not present a solid scientific background to the claims that he made in relation to these nerve walls. At least Robinson didn’t try to explain his finding scientifically, but as a interesting point that cannot be ruled out when studying the connections to science from the complex social roll of the dice that happens. 

With that, this book does have something to say about skills, and how people learn. That I did find really fascinating and a great read. Especially as he explains the patterns that he has observed and how we can take that information and apply it to real life.

Unfortunately due to the amount sudo-science in this book is the reason why I cannot give this book more that a 6/10 because half of the dam time, he is blabbing on without solid footing for his argument. However I would still recommend the person interested in this subject to read purely due to the case studies of the people he has investigated and his findings (minus the science). He could be right, but I need proof before I will rubber stamp this book.