Sangeeth Varghese's analysis of the 'Physiology of Leadership' in the light of Daniel Coyle's book "The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How," is interesting.
However, Coyle's message that Sangeeth sums up as: "It is a good read for anyone who wants to understand the science behind great talent and skill. More important, it shows exactly how you can be expert at something though you weren't born with it at all," is, somehow, not getting aligned with my thought process of understanding the fundamental aspects of leadership development.
First of all, I don't think all of us are born with Myelin sheath having same thickness, the layers of fat and proteins that allows rapid and efficient transmission of impulses along the nerve cells and also prevent these impulses from escaping the nerves at the wrong points.
"Practice makes one perfect," my mother used tell me during childhood and I'm sure most of you had been taught the same. So there is nothing new about it except scientific explanation.
However, based on my practical observation of the behavioral aspects of many people - both in professional as well as personal life - I've interacted so far, I can certainly draw a conclusion that 'not everything is everybody's cup of tea,' another proverb. And Remember, these proverbs were made out of several thousand years of experience and applicable to any situation.
Does it mean there are some internal key factors that actually resist one's skills development in certain directions despite best efforts, but enhance the same in other directions easily? May be!
If it is so then what's that ? Yes there is something, and it's called natural talent -- what I'm referring to, and difficult to deny its existence.
So there seems to be an internal mechanism governing one's preferred orientation of expertise, enhancing a selective capturing and storing of vital inputs in brain's neural circuit pertaining to that area of specialization and letting others leak through.
I do agree with the assumption that all of us can develop leadership skills through a unique combination of inspired practice and committed coach but differ slightly, saying, it happens only in a particular area of specialization and that's what most of us fail to identify, eventually landing on the wrong track -- there by disagreeing with Sangeeth's concluding statement "it shows exactly how you can be expert at something though you weren't born with it at all."
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