Geniuses and Outsiders: Why Some Get Everything and Others Get Nothing

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Only those who can't read don't know that Steve Jobs was distinguished by a manic desire for simplicity in everything, and Mike Tyson by incredible aggressiveness. At the same time, few people think about the fact that perhaps we would never have heard of Jobs if he had been raised by his biological parents far from Silicon Valley. And it is unknown whether Mike Tyson would have become a boxer or not if he had grown up in a more prosperous area and a close-knit family (those who knew Mike as a child unanimously declare his soft character and inability to stand up for himself).

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Force of circumstances
To be born at the right time in the right place

To become a famous football player, it is not enough to be born in Brazil, and Canadian citizenship does not necessarily open the way to the NHL. However, if a future hockey player is lucky enough to be born in Canada, a lucky month of birth can bring him closer to success. The optimal months of birth for future hockey players are January, February and March. The closer the birthday is to the beginning of the year, the greater the chances of success.

It turns out that 40% of players on Canada's top adult, junior and children's hockey teams have birthdays in January, February and March, 30% between April and June, 20% between July and September and only 10% in the last months of the year.

This situation has nothing to do with astrology, numerology or the phases of the moon. It’s just that recruitment for hockey groups ends at the end of the calendar year. If a child turns 10 on December 30, he or she is in the 10-year-old group, and if his or her birthday is on January 2, he or she trains with 9-year-olds. At this age, the difference of one year is critical – over the course of 12 months, height and weight increase significantly, and coordination of movements improves. As a result of this selection, the oldest (and therefore the most agile and tall) young players are considered the most talented. They are recruited into children’s club teams, trained by the best coaches, and participate in more matches during the season and train 2–3 times more than their less fortunate peers. After 4–5 years, the insignificant difference in age grows into a huge gap in the level of play due to better training, more intensive training and game practice.

Favorable opportunities

It happens that a child is born "with a silver spoon in his mouth", from infancy he is surrounded by the best governesses, then he enters an elite school, after which he most likely continues his education at a prestigious university, and as a result he becomes an ordinary loser, capable only of squandering his inheritance. At the same time, his peer from a less prosperous country, who is forced to work from an early age because his parents barely make ends meet, can become rich and famous.

The thing is that when we talk about opportunities, we most often mean money and status. However, it is much more important to be in the right place at the right time. And for one, this place will be the beginning of success, and for another, it will be just another stop on the path of life.

Bill Gates was born into a wealthy family. However, he got to where he is thanks to a series of favorable opportunities. Here are just a few:

Bill was bored at a regular school, so his parents transferred him to a private school, Lakeside.
The students' parents purchased a computer for the school, which was a rarity at the time.
The mother of one of the students turned out to be a co-owner of a computer time provider company, and Bill could spend long hours at the computer.
Bill accidentally learned about a vacancy for a programmer at ISI.
Lakeside School allowed students to take a semester off to participate in a project to computerize a power plant.