Emma Dunster - Coyle 3+4

 These chapters mainly focused on myelin generation/wrapping. Firstly, this section discussed talent hotbeds and how they form and why they pop up where they do. In general, it seemed that talent hotbeds have a tendency to form in areas where people can just mess around and do what they like. There were an absolute excessive number of examples given in these chapters about different talent hotbeds popping up in unlikely places, and all of them had in common that people were able to experiment and be free to mess up. The Brontes, the skateboarder kids, and more all just loved what they did and, more importantly, felt free to mess up and experiment. The Brontes were terrible writers in youth, but their books became standard literature many years in the future, all because they were able to experiment and then finesse their work over and over. The environment that allows for mistakes to be made and learned from is the optimal environment for growth.

An interesting point I found in the second section, chapter 4, was how important simply studying and observing/listening to things that you want to improve in are. You simply observe before doing the movement or listen before singing/playing and then try to replicate as much of that as you can, and that is often a much faster way to learn something. Being able to visualize how to do something before doing it is much more helpful than learning the theory of it and trying to do it that way.