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A specific eligibility date that creates age-based advantage.
Arbitrary cutoff date
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The pattern where those who gain early success receive increasing advantages over time.
Matthew Effect
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The band that gained thousands of hours playing in Hamburg.
The Beatles
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The Canadian hockey team Gladwell uses as evidence for birth-month trends.
Medicine Hat Tigers
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The economic concept showing how small advantages grow over time.
Compounding advantage
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The key combination (3) Gladwell argues produces outliers.
Ability + Opportunity + Arbitrary Advantage
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banana
Go to last place!
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shark
Other team loses 25 points!
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fairy
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baam
Lose 25 points!
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The estimated number of practice hours required to achieve mastery.
10,000-Hour Rule
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The company Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard to build.
Microsoft
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The month most elite Canadian hockey players are disproportionately born in.
January
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baam
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star
Double points!
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fairy
Take points!
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thief
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The private school Bill Gates attended in 7th grade.
Lakeside School
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The University where Bill Joy gained early computer access.
University of Michigan
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The shared factor connecting Gates, Joy, Allen, Ballmer, and Schmidt.
Timing (Accept: Birth-year advantage)
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seesaw
Swap points!
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magnet
Take 20 points!
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shark
Other team loses 20 points!
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thief
Give points!
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A system where success is based purely on ability and effort.
Meritocracy
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