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Interestingly, in Belgium, the cutoff date for soccer used to be August
1, and back then, almost a quarter of their top players were born
in August and September. But then the Belgian soccer federation
switched to January 1, and sure enough, within a few years, there were
almost no elite soccer players born in December, and an overwhelming number born in January.
Bill Gates could accept the title of genius, and leave it at that.
It takes no small degree of humility for him to look back
on his life and say, "I was very lucky." And he was. The
Mothers' Club of Lakeside Academy bought him a computer in 1968. It is impossible for a hockey player, or Bill
Joy, or Robert Oppenheimer, or any other outlier for that
matter, to look down from their lofty perch and say with
truthfulness, "I did this, all by myself.
Culled from Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Abdulkareem,Taoheedah kehinde
Interestingly, in Belgium, the cutoff date for soccer used to be August
1, and back then, almost a quarter of their top players were born
in August and September. But then the Belgian soccer federation
switched to January 1, and sure enough, within a few years, there were
almost no elite soccer players born in December, and an overwhelming number born in January.
Bill Gates could accept the title of genius, and leave it at that.
It takes no small degree of humility for him to look back
on his life and say, "I was very lucky." And he was. The
Mothers' Club of Lakeside Academy bought him a computer in 1968. It is impossible for a hockey player, or Bill
Joy, or Robert Oppenheimer, or any other outlier for that
matter, to look down from their lofty perch and say with
truthfulness, "I did this, all by myself.
Culled from Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Abdulkareem,Taoheedah kehinde
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