Unexpected accumulation and Matthew Effect

Maybe before reading this chapter, I cannot imagine how much my birthday will affect myself.

Today I read the preface and the first chapter of "heterogeneous. In summary, it illustrates a rule that is clearly hidden in life-the advantage will gradually accumulate until a qualitative change occurs. Just like in the Gospel of Matthew, "If there is anything, add it to him and make him redundant. If there is nothing, take the rest of him ."

The story begins with a very simple selection of athletes. The author gave an example of a strange data about why ice hockey players in Canada have their birthdays in May 1, 2, and March. Similarly, European soccer players and American baseball players often spend their birthdays in a few months. If the data is correct, it is instructive to analyze the cause. Although I am older, it does not affect my guidance on the next generation.

The author provides a concise but pertinent reason. Taking the Canadian ice hockey player's birthday in, as an example, not because winter athletes are more suitable for ice sports, but because of the selection mechanism of Canadian athletes, it is based on January 1 of every year. In this selection mechanism, a group of excellent athletes will be selected every year. The smaller the birthday, the closer the person is to January, during the annual selection, they both compete with people smaller than them.

We may not be aware of the fact that the average age is less than half a year older than that of "Students", so that we are born from 1 ~ In March, people "Excel ". Among them, the logic is also easy to complete. Xiao Ming at the age of 9 and 11 months is faster and more physical than Yan lei at the age of 9 and 1 month. Therefore, James gained more encouragement, confidence, and opportunities. Because coaches usually think that the same group of children are equal, they will ignore the physiological gap in less than a year, and are more inclined to give excellent seeds more resources. Therefore, although Yan Lei may be better than Xiao Lei in an individual, Xiao Lei is obviously better than Xiao Lei in statistics.

The demarcation line of January 1 gives people born in January an inherent advantage over those born in December, james is more likely to become a star, while Lei is more likely to sit on the bench.

It is easy to think of an environment that is more grounded. Our primary and secondary education. It is based on September 1.

When everyone complies with the rules, James, born in September, will be older than lei, born in August, in the same class. In the development stage, the gap between one year may make James stronger and smarter. Then, the story similar to ice hockey players may happen again. Of course, this is only a small advantage, but who said it is not meat.

So I began to recall my student age. Unfortunately, I couldn't remember everyone's birthday. But obviously, without the shift leader experience in the student age, my initiative will be worse than it is now. However, it was a coincidence that the shift leader was just because the sister next to me urged me to run for the election, and my competitors did not speak well. Even More coincidentally, the competitor is smaller than us, not just the gap between Xiao Ming and Lei. He should have been in a lower stage. In short, I have won a sixth-grade competitor, maybe a fifth-grade competitor, with my first-grade strength. At that time, it seemed that it was justified.

Perhaps step-by-step is better than race against time.