Laura Berg TC Chapter 3 Summary
Summary: Often times, amazing talent seems to spring up from unseemly circumstances. The author describes 3 such instances, including the Brontes girls who grew up in a constricted environment but wrote some of our most well-loved stories, the Z-boys, who were know from their incredible skating skills, and the artists of the Renaissance. Taking a look deeper, the author describes in each of these instances how each group of people started out actually quite amateur, but achieved their level of skill by consistent and meticulous hard-work and "deep practice." They had built up a lot of myelin in their area of expertise. Myelin does not care who or what you are, but what you do. We are all myelin beings, meaning that we are not only a product of our genes and our environment, but we wire ourselves in the specific skills we have depending on what we do.
Key Concept: Our skill at anything grows according to the signals we send.
Key terms: Signals, circuits, myelin beings, genes, environment
Making Connections: I have in me the nature ability of singing, due to my genes, which gave me my the different parts of my body necessary for singing, and my environment, where I grew up in a musical family. However, this is not enough to be the skilled singer that I desire to be. I must practice effectively so that I am firing the correct signals through my body that create the myelin for my desired outcome and skill.