Gladwell whips out logos here because yes logically this all makes sense of why more hockey players have birthdays January-March. A boy who turns ten on January 2, then, could be playing alongside someone who doesn’t turn ten until the end of the year-and at that age, in preadolescence, a twelve month gap in age represents an enormous difference in physical maturity. “The explanation for this is quite simple… Canada’s cut-off date is January 1st.
He, later on, went online and researched famous hockey players birthdays and yet again their birthdays fell at the beginning of the year. As Barnsley was reading the player roster, he noticed that the majority of the players birthdays fell in the first few months of the year. This person named Barnsley attended a Lethbridge Broncos hockey game in southern Alberta. People don’t know what obstacles people had to go through to become successful but what people do know is that people who have birthdays at the beginning of the year have a leg up on people who have a birthday at the end of the year. Immediately the reader gets interested when Gladwell talks about the Memorial Cup Hockey game in Vancouver British Columbia.
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