But he didn't start out an outlier. He started out just a little bit better. 但他并不是一开始就是一个出类拔萃的人,他起初只不过比他人稍强一点罢了。 The second implication of the hockey example is that the systems we...
That initial difference in maturity doesn't go away with time. 最初年龄带来的差异到此时依旧没有消除掉, It persists. 还在继续发挥影响。 And for thousands of students, that initial disadvantage is the difference between go...
It's hard for a five-year-old to keep up with a child born many months earlier. 理由是,对一个5岁的孩子来说,他很难和比他早几个月出生的孩子相处。 But most parents, one suspects, think that whatever disadvantage a young...
European soccer, similarly, is organized like hockey and baseball, 欧洲足球的组织模式和曲棍球、棒球的模式非常相似, and the birth-date distributions in that sport are heavily skewed as well. 球员的出生日期呈现出一边倒...
And what happens when a player gets chosen for a rep squad? 一个球员如果能有幸进入曲棍球巡回赛,他将获得什么? He gets better coaching, 他会拥有优秀的教练、 and his teammates are better, 更出色的队友、 and he...
March 11 starts around one side of the Tiger's net, 3月11开始逼近猛虎球网的一侧, leaving the puck for a teammate January 4, 把球传给队友1月4, who passes it to January 22, 后者把球传给1月22, who flips it back to March 1...
Barnsley went home at night, 回家之后的那个晚上, and looked at the birth dates of as many professional hockey players as he could find. 巴恩斯利尽可能地收集了许多职业曲棍球运动员的出生日期, He saw the same patte...
it is also the tallest because no other trees block its sunlight, 还因为没有别的树木遮蔽它的阳光, because the soil around it was deep and rich, 因为树木周围的土壤肥沃而深厚; because no rabbit chewed through its bark a...
When he ran for governor of Florida, 在竞选佛罗里达州州长的时候, he repeatedly referred to himself as a self-made man, 杰布布什一再声称自己是白手起家者。 and it is a measure of how deeply we associate success with the...
This is a book about outliers, 这是一本谈论那些与众不同之人的书, about men and women who do things that are out of the ordinary. 这些与众不同的男人或者女人,他们的成就超越了常人。 Over the course of the chap...