The Little Book of Talent

52 Tips for Improving Your Skills

By: Daniel Coyle

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Build a faster brain and a better you with this invaluable handbook from the New York Times bestselling author of The Culture Code and The Talent Code.

“The Little Book of Talent should be given to every graduate at commencement, every new parent in a delivery room, every executive on the first day of work. It is a guidebook—beautiful in its simplicity and backed by hard science—for nurturing excellence.”—Charles Duhigg, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Habit

Whatever talent you set out to build, from golfing to learning a new language to playing guitar to managing a startup, be assured of one thing: You are born with the machinery to transform beginners’ clumsiness into fast, fluent action. That machinery is not controlled by genes, it’s controlled by you.

The Little Book of Talent is an easy-to-use handbook of scientifically proven, field-tested methods to improve skills—your skills, your kids’ skills, your organization’s skills—in sports, music, art, math, and business. The product of five years of reporting from the world’s greatest talent hotbeds and interviews with successful master coaches, it distills the daunting complexity of skill development into 52 clear, concise directives. Whether you’re age 10 or 100, whether you’re on the sports field or the stage, in the classroom or the corner office, this is an essential guide for anyone who ever asked, “How do I get better?”

Critic reviews

“The Little Book of Talent should be given to every graduate at commencement, every new parent in a delivery room, every executive on the first day of work. It is a guidebook—beautiful in its simplicity and backed by hard science—for nurturing excellence.”—Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit

“It’s so juvenile to throw around hyperbolic terms such as ‘life-changing,’ but there’s no other way to describe The Little Book of Talent. I was avidly trying new things within the first half hour of reading it and haven’t stopped since. Brilliant. And yes: life-changing.”—Tom Peters, co-author of In Search of Excellence

Best Self-Help Title To Help Me Find notice MybSkills.

What I really liked about this Audible is how it helped me improve my ideas like exaggerating new moves and cultivating grit.

Concise and Effective

This was a nice focused extension of The Talent Code, which I reference almost daily. This book is worth revisiting regularly to stay fresh and focused.

really practical and concise

really practical and concise good for anyone not just coaches but apparently this review requires more words for no reason even though it's supposed to be optional

Better than expected

Loved the book it was amazing, I didn't have high expectations coming in but it proved me wrong

buy book

definitely will purchase book for my team! great concise advice and lessons on self mastery!