{"id":1319,"date":"2014-10-13T22:58:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T14:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dayandcarrot.net\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2014-10-13T22:58:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T14:58:35","slug":"coyles-inspiring-sweet-spot-critical-review-on-coyles-the-sweet-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dayandcarrot.space\/?p=1319","title":{"rendered":"Coyle's inspiring Sweet Spot | Critical Review on Coyle's 'The Sweet Spot'"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThis is a project essay of mine in\u00a0English Composition\u00a0 I: Achieving Expertise<\/em>. Anyone who uses my work please at least cite this webpage at the end of your work.<\/strong> The text in this post is only a draft <\/strong>which may contain\u00a0few\u00a0syntax errors.<\/p>\n

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\nProject One: Critical Review of Coyle’s “The Sweet Spot”<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nCoyle’s\u00a0inspiring Sweet Spot
\nThe word \u201ctalent\u201d can be seen through Coyle\u2019s passage, but according to the author, the word is more or less linked with practice and mistakes. It\u2019s obviously an inspiring and self-helping book, and this chapter gives a strong idea that greatness isn\u2019t born. It\u2019s grown, <\/i>especially through mistakes.
\nIn this chapter Coyle discusses a variety of ideas via different examples. He has visited different people from several countries. So he demonstrates his view with their personal experience. Brunio is an eleven-year-old Brazilian football player who is trying to learn the elastic, which is a ball-handling maneuver. Although he failed to finish the move at the first time, he stopped and thought with his taut face and focused eyes, practicing it slowly but progressively (P.13). Another girl Jennie kept working on the pop song, singing every note slowly, and finally sang the measure perfectly (P.13). Those two example presents the idea that practice deeply leads the way to success.
\nCoyle isn\u2019t totally agree with the traditional explanation that such kind of concentrated talent is to attribute it to a combination of genes and environment (P.14). He offers his \u201cdeep practice\u201d theory and reinforces it with a word list memorization exercise (P.16). The words in column B with fragments can be remembered more easily than column A because it evokes our deeper practice. The following life vest example (P.16) also proves his theory.
\nTo further illustrate his idea, Coyle cites a UCLA professor Bjork. Bjork said \u201cthere\u2019s an optimal gap between what you know and what you\u2019re trying to do\u201d, and that\u2019s what the Sweet Spot is. In Coyle\u2019s theory practice and making mistakes is a way to find the sweet spot, then one can turn mistakes into skills. And people use time more efficiently when they practice deeply (P.19).
\nAccording to Coyle\u2019s theory, deep practice is a strange concept for two reasons. Firstly, it cuts against our intuition about talent. Secondly it turns mistakes into skills (which is mentioned above). His second reason provokes a question that what if the mistake has a decent chance of killing you <\/i>(P.20). Then Edwin Link\u2019s pilot simulation device is cited to deal with that question. As is described in the text that Edwin\u2019s trainer allows a pilot to perform \u201ctake off\u201d and \u201cland\u201d a dozen times on his instruments during a few hours (P.24). His invention successfully extended the deep practice idea onto dangerous jobs.
\nIn order to assure his theory could take effect on other field, the author applies his idea to Brazil\u2019s soccer players. In short, the special indoor football, futsal<\/i>, helps local players gain more practice opportunities. Futsal is the lever through which those other factors transfer their force<\/i> (P.28). However, I personally have some doubts that whether this magical ball is overestimated. In my opinion, other factors such as environment (e.g. poverty, popularity), passion of the kids might be taken into consideration as well. Though futsal does help improve their football skills, it isn\u2019t quite clear that whether the mini-sized heavy ball is the key factor to such talent.
\n\u201cAs Coyle reports, deep practice actually changes the physical makeup of the brain. \u2026 However, mere repetition is not enough. To create myelin, the repetition requires powerful attention\u201d<\/i> said by Jade and Barbara (Eckard, et al. 2013). Coyle gives us hope and inspiration via a variety of stories, but it simply isn\u2019t objective. He relates success (or talent) to deep practice regardless of innate capabilities and environments.
\nIn summary, despite of Coyle\u2019s little subjective, I have learned a lot from the first chapter of his book. Perhaps Coyle doesn\u2019t need to be objective because the text itself is about making you feel good, energetic and ambitious, at least it inspired me well. I also admire his way of elaborating the concepts.
\nReferences
\n1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eckard, Bonnie J. “Embodying Deep Practice: A Pedagogical Approach to Actor Training.” Embodied Consciousness: Performance Technologies (2013): 46.
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\nWorks of others that indirectly helps me with my critical review
\n1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Critical Review on “The Sweet Spot” by Daniel Coyle. http:\/\/criticalreviewthesweetspot.blogspot.com\/<\/a>
\n2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Critical Review of Coyle’s The Sweet Spot\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/book.douban.com\/review\/5866658\/<\/a>
\n3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Critical Review of Daniel Coyle’s “The Sweet Spot”http:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/252930427_Critical_Review_of_Daniel_Coyle’s_The_Sweet_Spot<\/a><\/p>\n

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