Well actually an e-book. A very interesting take on people who have done well for themselves, whether academically or in business. Basic premise is that many of the things that create an outlier are basically good timing and some child rearing techniques that are divided by income level. He points to certain groups of people, for example most of the modern personal computing pioneers were born in a very specific period of the 50's. 1955 - 1958 I believe. Also, in pro sports, hockey for example - most of the players are born Jan - April and virtually none are born past September with a few exceptions. This situation also occurs with soccer and apparently baseball. He claims it has to do with the cut off dates for aging up. Hockey is Jan 1. Baseball is sometime in the summer. He claims the bias occurs because kid at the younger ages grow more quickly and since the older kids are better developed physically they tend to get picked more often for the "a" teams.

Interesting observations, thoughts anyone?