Grasping the opportunity to succeed

Grasping the opportunity to succeed

When is the best time for children to enter school, is it the sooner the better?

There are many factors for success, but opportunities are definitely an important factor.

In the Canadian Hockey League, the proportion of players born in January-March is 40%, the proportion of players born in April-June is 30%, the proportion of players born in July-September is 20%, and the proportion of players born in October-December is 10%. why?
Of the Canadian hockey professional teams, 17 of the 25 players were born in January-April. why?

In fact, there is no special charm in January-March. This phenomenon has nothing to do with the constellation. The reason is very simple. In Canada, the legal registration time for the hockey league is January 1;

Of all the local registered players in the English Premier League in a certain year, 288 players were born in September-November, and only 136 players were born in June-August. Why are there so many differences?

The reason is equally simple: in the English Football League, the legal time for player registration is September 1.

Why is the registration time arbitrarily determined to have such a big impact? The reason is that when we are young, we determine who is good and who is bad. We choose “excellent” from “the mediocre”. The final chance is that we will leave it to a small number of players whose birth date is closest to the legal registration. time.

After selecting the "squatters", the coach will "open a small stove" for them, they have the opportunity to participate in high-level competitions, their level will be higher and higher, this is the result of the Matthew effect "everything, but also added He has more than enough for him; if he does not have it, he will take it if he has it." The older the age, the better the coach, the most scientifically trained, and ultimately, the final result due to the “cumulative effect”. Professional athletes may be slightly better at the starting point than their peers. But this makes the difference afterwards bigger and bigger.

All of the above tell us that success depends on opportunities at the beginning. Although we can't deny the successful efforts or talents of successful people, this kind of opportunity has played a key role in their success. If you still don't agree, please see below:

FIFA adjusted the registration time of the tournament to January 1st. Of the 21 players of the Czech World Youth Team who won the 2007 World Youth Soccer Championship, 15 were born in January-March.

Two economists in the United States have analyzed the correlation between the birth date and test scores of teenagers participating in TIMSS. They found that among the fourth-grade students, the earliest child born in the same age group is the younger than the child born. 4-12 points higher. This difference is even brought to the university: in the best colleges and universities in the United States, students born late in each grade account for only 11.6% of the total number of students.

The biggest impact of this result on the Chinese is: Don't let your child enter school early, maybe it is better to go to school later. I personally think deeply!