Agreeing With Gladwell

               I do think people have advantages in competitive situations and other self-goal oriented activities. Some people have money to hire people to help them and get down the specific formats, other people can figure it out on their own, and others just have to learn on their own. Some might succeed and some might not. Gladwell’s opinion on the daily question is the specific age of the person. The individual may have an advantage by being born in the beginning of the year and others have a disadvantage because they were born late in the year. They have an advantage of being born early because they have started earlier with learning the sport. Gladwell says, “A twelve- month gap in age represents an enormous difference in physical maturity.” (Gladwell 24). I agree with Gladwell because age does have a lot to do with physical maturity. Some people mature fast and others don’t. It has to do with age. Also, the specific month of when they were born helps with them determining what competitive level they are in because of the specific times they started training and learning the formats of the sport and their physical capability of playing the sport. This chapter made me re-think my answer to the daily question because it gave me a new perspective to think form. Now I have my thoughts and logical thoughts. Some examples he used were the charts in the book saying the number, name, position, left or right handed, height, birthdate, and home town of the player. They were convincing sources by showing that the players are born more in January through March then in April through December.