Steve Jobs: A Brief History Of Canadian Youth Hockey
Everyone loves a good rags to riches story, a diamond in the rough anecdote like Joseph from the bible. Joseph was sold into slavery and miraculously becomes the pharaoh’s right-hand man. Or how J.K Rowling, arguably one of the most famous authors, lived on welfare before writing the most widely read book series. However, becoming successful is directly related to opportunities and the fact that they owe something to patronage and parentage . For example, Steve Jobs, a multimillionaire that may look like he came from nothing. But looking behind the curtains, Job’s was given very beneficial opportunities to further his studies in electronics at a lab in Washington right by his college. People don’t rise from nothing; individuals who are successful in this world have been dealt an extremely beneficial hand and have been given extraordinary opportunities.
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Canada is known for their hockey and that is why Canadian youth hockey players are a great example of how kids are getting better opportunities than others.
A psychologist Roger Barnesly looked very closely at why these youth players were excelling at a faster rate than other kids. It was all in when the kids were born. The cutoff for Canadian youth hockey is January 1st; meaning that the best kids were born in the months closest to the cutoff. That is important because the players were older and much more mature. Thus, these bigger, older players make an impression on talent scouts at a young age. Then they are moved to better teams, receive better coaches, have more opportunities to practice—and this makes them better. Therefore, this example shows how advantages of being born close to that cutoff date is extremely beneficial for rising in a specific sport and how hidden opportunities create success in today’s grueling
world.
To expand on becoming successful, Gladwell explains how being successful is directly related to how much practice is performed. Preferably ten thousand hours or 416 days or six hundred thousand minutes. Practicing one specific talent for ten thousand hours is a doorway to becoming successful; without the opportunity for intense, prolonged, and concentrated practice, no one can become exceptionally successful in a given field. For instance, “Mozart at ten years old was performing concertos then finally composed his masterwork at 21”(Gladwell). To become an expert, you need parents who support you and encourage you, and enough money so that you don’t worry about other factors that can interrupt being successful. Only extraordinary opportunities give a person the ability to become an expert and succeed.
On the contrary, people can be successful from raw talent and motivation, and have not been given extraordinary opportunities like the hockey players, Steve Jobs and Mozart. Jim Carrey estimated to be worth around 20 million dollars became successful from nothing. He was forced to drop out of high school to help pay the family's bills. After moving to the U.S he struggled to get on his feet in the comedian world till he finally hit it big on a television show. However, this may look like a great story of determination and talent that brings success but he moved to the U.S giving him the chance to get better opportunities to get on a great television show or get a comedy special. In conclusion, people who stand before kings, have the best voices in music, are the smartest in the world, are the best athlete in a specific sport didn’t become that by themselves. The ecology of organisms can expand further on that; “the tallest oak in the forest is the tallest not just because it grew from the hardiest acorn; it is the tallest also because no other trees blocked its sunlight, the soil around it was deep and rich, no rabbit chewed through its bark as a sapling, and no lumberjack cut it down before it matured”(Gladwell). Therefore, it is appropriate that where successful people are from is a gateway to see who succeeds and who falls short.
Canada is known for their hockey and that is why Canadian youth hockey players are a great example of how kids are getting better opportunities than others.
A psychologist Roger Barnesly looked very closely at why these youth players were excelling at a faster rate than other kids. It was all in when the kids were born. The cutoff for Canadian youth hockey is January 1st; meaning that the best kids were born in the months closest to the cutoff. That is important because the players were older and much more mature. Thus, these bigger, older players make an impression on talent scouts at a young age. Then they are moved to better teams, receive better coaches, have more opportunities to practice—and this makes them better. Therefore, this example shows how advantages of being born close to that cutoff date is extremely beneficial for rising in a specific sport and how hidden opportunities create success in today’s grueling
world.
To expand on becoming successful, Gladwell explains how being successful is directly related to how much practice is performed. Preferably ten thousand hours or 416 days or six hundred thousand minutes. Practicing one specific talent for ten thousand hours is a doorway to becoming successful; without the opportunity for intense, prolonged, and concentrated practice, no one can become exceptionally successful in a given field. For instance, “Mozart at ten years old was performing concertos then finally composed his masterwork at 21”(Gladwell). To become an expert, you need parents who support you and encourage you, and enough money so that you don’t worry about other factors that can interrupt being successful. Only extraordinary opportunities give a person the ability to become an expert and succeed.
On the contrary, people can be successful from raw talent and motivation, and have not been given extraordinary opportunities like the hockey players, Steve Jobs and Mozart. Jim Carrey estimated to be worth around 20 million dollars became successful from nothing. He was forced to drop out of high school to help pay the family's bills. After moving to the U.S he struggled to get on his feet in the comedian world till he finally hit it big on a television show. However, this may look like a great story of determination and talent that brings success but he moved to the U.S giving him the chance to get better opportunities to get on a great television show or get a comedy special. In conclusion, people who stand before kings, have the best voices in music, are the smartest in the world, are the best athlete in a specific sport didn’t become that by themselves. The ecology of organisms can expand further on that; “the tallest oak in the forest is the tallest not just because it grew from the hardiest acorn; it is the tallest also because no other trees blocked its sunlight, the soil around it was deep and rich, no rabbit chewed through its bark as a sapling, and no lumberjack cut it down before it matured”(Gladwell). Therefore, it is appropriate that where successful people are from is a gateway to see who succeeds and who falls short.