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In Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, the Story of Success, he discusses how a small advantage at the start can lead to a huge one down the line. The kid born right after the hockey cut-off date will be a little bit older, and therefore bigger, than a lot of his peers. Eventually, that small advantage means that he makes the team more often, gets selected into higher and higher leagues and teams, until you end up with a majority of Canadian hockey players born in the first few months of the year.

在马尔科姆?格拉德威尔(Malcolm Gladwell)的《成功的故事》(the Story of Success)一书中，他探讨了如何从一开始的小优势，发展成日后的巨大优势。在曲棍球比赛截止日期之后出生的孩子会比他的同龄人大一点，因此也会比他们的同龄人大一些。最终，这个小小的优势意味着他能更频繁地加入球队，被选入越来越高的联赛和球队，直到大多数加拿大曲棍球运动员都出生在一年的头几个月。

A small advantage at the start can compound, until it becomes a crushing one.