Little Book of Talent by Daniel Coyle, (15) Tip #15, Notes

Post date: Oct 13, 2018 5:40:36 PM

Little Book of Talent by Daniel Coyle

TIP #15 BREAK EVERY MOVE DOWN INTO CHUNKS

Take it a little bit at a time. This is the way the brain learns. Every skill is built out of smaller pieces (chunks.) Chunks are to skill what letters of the alphabet are to language. Alone, each is nearly useless, but when combined into bigger chunks (words), and when those chunks are combined into still bigger things (sentences, paragraphs), they can build something complex and beautiful. No matter what skill you set out to learn, the pattern is always the same:

• 1. See the whole thing. To begin chunking, first engrave the blueprint of the skill on your mind (see Tip #2).

  2. Break it down to its simplest elements. Ask yourself:

     1. What is the smallest single element of this skill that I can master?

     2. What other chunks link to that chunk?

     3. Practice one chunk by itself until you’ve mastered it

  3. Put it back together. Repeat. Connect more chunks, one by one, exactly as you would combine letters to form a word. Then combine those chunks into still bigger chunks and so on.