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By: Ben DeGeorge
A study outlined in the book "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell, shows a gigantic disparity of knowledge and ability between kids from rich families and kids from poor families. Baltimore school kids showed a 9% difference in "smarts" in 1st grade and a 15% difference in 5th grade.
Interestingly, the study found that during the 8 or 9 month period that school was in session each group learned at about the same rate, with poorer students actually edging out rich student learned knowledge by 2%.
After a while, they concluded that the achievement gap between the students occured due to summer learning (or unlearning). Rich kids got smarter over the summer while poor kids did not.
Kids in rich families spent more time than poor kids reading, going to cultural events, conversing with adults and taking summer classes. That little bit extra translated into a 15% greater knowledge and ability attainment for rich kids over a measly five years.
That's huge!
Imagine what happens in high school and college, and more importantly, how this issue translates into the real world!
What people do in their free time matters. In fact, that is what makes the difference between a thousandaire and a millionaire.
Keeping this truth in mind; Ask yourself, "What am I doing on my summer vacation? How am I spending my free time when I'm not at school or at work?
The difference between high achievers and "normal" people is the time they invest in themselves when they are not working. Your environment and activities shape your intelligence and this directly translates into your success and happiness over the long term.
Luckily, there is a cool fact for us who are not baby geniuses; We can shape our environment and activities in order to catapult our success above what we before thought possible.
-Who do you surround yourself with?
-What do you read?
-What questions do you ponder in your free time?
-What do you spend your time thinking about?
-What do you think you should spend your time thinking about and doing?
-What do you want to spend your time thinking about and doing?
Whatever you think about and do, you will become. What do you want to become?
What if you were able to become 15% more knowledgeable than everyone else over the next five years?
A study outlined in the book "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell, shows a gigantic disparity of knowledge and ability between kids from rich families and kids from poor families. Baltimore school kids showed a 9% difference in "smarts" in 1st grade and a 15% difference in 5th grade.
Interestingly, the study found that during the 8 or 9 month period that school was in session each group learned at about the same rate, with poorer students actually edging out rich student learned knowledge by 2%.
After a while, they concluded that the achievement gap between the students occured due to summer learning (or unlearning). Rich kids got smarter over the summer while poor kids did not.
Kids in rich families spent more time than poor kids reading, going to cultural events, conversing with adults and taking summer classes. That little bit extra translated into a 15% greater knowledge and ability attainment for rich kids over a measly five years.
That's huge!
Imagine what happens in high school and college, and more importantly, how this issue translates into the real world!
What people do in their free time matters. In fact, that is what makes the difference between a thousandaire and a millionaire.
Keeping this truth in mind; Ask yourself, "What am I doing on my summer vacation? How am I spending my free time when I'm not at school or at work?
The difference between high achievers and "normal" people is the time they invest in themselves when they are not working. Your environment and activities shape your intelligence and this directly translates into your success and happiness over the long term.
Luckily, there is a cool fact for us who are not baby geniuses; We can shape our environment and activities in order to catapult our success above what we before thought possible.
-Who do you surround yourself with?
-What do you read?
-What questions do you ponder in your free time?
-What do you spend your time thinking about?
-What do you think you should spend your time thinking about and doing?
-What do you want to spend your time thinking about and doing?
Whatever you think about and do, you will become. What do you want to become?
What if you were able to become 15% more knowledgeable than everyone else over the next five years?
