We'll be calling you Squire soon Dr. Noice bit of land there.
Ok, do people want their minds blown away about life......I have started reading "outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell, holy fukkarooney, so interesting it's hard to explain. But it explains the successes that the likes of Major League Hockey Players have (his first example) and other Professional sports, Business men, People through the ages that are Multi billionaires, etc, etc. And it's all down to luck and timing. Really makes you a bit sick in the mouth actually.
Here's the basic principle behind for example the Canadian Hockey Pro's. And it's really quite simple. The Majority of players that are Hockey Pro's all have their birthdays between January and the middle of the year. The % of people who make it from the latter months of the year are minimla. Reason, the Canadian cut off date for age is the 31st of December. So if you are born on the 1st, you have the greater chance of becoming a Pro player than others born after you. This is also due to the age that players start being moved into different levels (often 8-9 year olds)and then the differences in maturity between two people in the same age group. Someone born in January is going to be maturer, bigger, and maybe even more advanced in brain functions than someone born 11-12 months later. He also looked at the Czech junior team, out of 22 players, 1 player Born in December. They came 5th in the World Junior champions.
He then mentions IT giants like Bill Joy and Bill Gates, Jobs, etc. They all grew up in a time when "time sharing" had just become the latest thing. 100's of terminals being linked to 1 mainframe so programmers could work simultaneously. PRior to that Joy for example, just happened to be a Maths expert who joined a University, that just so happened to spend millions on a new Mainframe system that perhaps only 4 other Univerisities had. I could ramble on about this book, but check it out. It's really really interesting.
And just so you don't think I have gone totally stur crazzy...Here's a Blueberry bud:
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slainte, DST