In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell pointed to a study showing Canadian ice hockey players lucky enough to be born in the first half of the year thrived, because of a January 1 age cut-off for the league. But Jim Collins and Morten Hansen countered in Great by Choice that the Boston Bruins’ Ray Bourque turned into one of the all-time greats despite being born in December. He used the bad luck to make himself stronger, they wrote.
在《異類(lèi)》(Outliers)一書(shū)中，馬爾科姆?格拉德韋爾(Malcolm Gladwell)提到一項(xiàng)研究，該研究表示，在加拿大冰球運(yùn)動(dòng)員中，有一些上半年出生的幸運(yùn)兒，他們的事業(yè)蓬勃發(fā)展正得益于此，因?yàn)楸泵辣蚵殬I(yè)聯(lián)賽是以1月1日劃分年齡的。但吉姆?柯林斯(Jim Collins)與莫滕?漢森(Morten Hansen)在兩人合著的《選擇卓越》(Great by Choice)一書(shū)中卻提出了反例：即便出生于12月，波士頓棕熊隊(duì)(Boston Bruins)的雷?布爾克(Ray Bourque，上圖)，仍成為了史上最偉大的球員之一。吉姆和莫滕寫(xiě)到，正因出生日期不走運(yùn)，才令雷?布爾克變得更強(qiáng)。