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This doesn't means that every software tycoon in Silicon Valley was born in 1955, or every business titan in United States was born in mid 1830s
But there are very clear patterns and what's striking is how little we seem to want to acknowledge them. We pretend that success is exclusively a matter of individual merit.
They are the people who were given a special opportunity to work really hard and seized it, and who happened to come of age at a time when that extraordinary effort was rewarded by the rest of society

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The Year You Are Born In Matter

In the 1860s and 1870s, the American economy went through perhaps the greatest transformation in its history (when rail road built and wall street emerge).

If you were born in the late 1840s you missed it. You were too young to take advantage of that moment
If you were born in...

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Below is a list of people who born in the 1950s, the best year to be born as they will be in their 20s when the computer and internet start booming (1970s)

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The other interesting thing about that ten thousand hours, of course, is that ten thousand hours is an enormous amount of time. It's all but impossible to reach that number all by yourself by the time you're a young adult. You have to have parents who encourage and support you. You can't be poor...

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Successful People Who Born In 1830s

John D. Rockefeller, 1839
Andrew Carnegie, 1835
Frederick Weyerhaeuser, 1834
Jay Gould, 1836
Marshall Field, 1834
George F. Baker, 1840
Hetty Green, 1834
James G. Fair, 1831
Henry H. Rogers, 1840
J. P . Morgan, 1837

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Successful People Who Born In 1950s

Bill Gates: October 28, 1955
Paul Allen: January 21, 1953
Steve Ballmer: March 24, 1956
Steve Jobs: February 24, 1955
Eric Schmidt: Apr...

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Outliers

by Malcolm Gladwell

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