異類:不一樣的成功啟示錄 第38期:歷史上最富有的75人

Let me give you one final example of the hidden opportunities that outliers benefit from.

讓我再給你舉個(gè)例子，看看機(jī)遇是如何在不知不覺(jué)中惠顧那些出類拔萃之輩的。

Suppose we do another version of the calendar analysis we did in the last chapter with hockey players.

跟我們?cè)谥皩?duì)曲棍球運(yùn)動(dòng)員進(jìn)行的分析相似，

And this time, we'll look at the list of seventy-five richest people in human history.

不過(guò)，這一次我們?cè)敿?xì)列出人類歷史上最富有的75個(gè)人，

It includes Queens and Kings and pharaohs from centuries past, as well as those contemporary billionaires, like Warren Buffett and Carlos Slim.

你可以從表格當(dāng)中看到幾個(gè)世紀(jì)之前的女王、國(guó)王或者是法老，你也可以從中看到像沃倫.巴菲特和卡洛斯.斯利姆這樣的當(dāng)代億萬(wàn)富翁。

Do you know what's interesting about this list?

你知道表格里面有趣的地方在哪兒?jiǎn)?

Of the seventy-five names, an astonishing fourteen are Americans born within nine years of one another in the mid-nineteenth century.

在75個(gè)人中，有14個(gè)美國(guó)人，他們都出生在19世紀(jì)中期的9個(gè)年頭之中，這真是讓人驚訝!

Think about that for a moment.

我們只要再仔細(xì)推敲，

Historians start with Cleopatra and the pharaohs and comb through every year in human history ever since,

從克利奧帕特拉和法老的年代開(kāi)始，梳理人類歷史上的每個(gè)年份，

looking in every corner of the world for evidence of extraordinary wealth,

找遍世界上的每一個(gè)角落，便能知道，

and almost 20 percent of the names they end up with come from a single generation in a single country.

在同一個(gè)國(guó)家，上面20%的名字最終都來(lái)自于同一個(gè)年代。

Here's a list of those Americans and their birth dates.

下面是14個(gè)出生于19世紀(jì)的美國(guó)人出生年份列表：

The first American is the richest man of all time.

位于榜首的是一位美國(guó)人。

John D. Rockefeller, born in 1839.

約翰D.洛克菲勒于1839年出生。

The second richest man of all time is also on the list. Andrew Carnegie, born in 1835.

排名第二的富人也一直從未落榜，他就是出生于1835年的安德魯.卡內(nèi)基。

The twenty-eighth richest man of all time, Frederick Weyerhaeuser, born in 1834.

排名第二十八位弗雷德里克出生于1834年。

Number thirty-three of all time, Jay Gould, born in 1836.

排名第三十三位的杰.古爾德出生于1836年。

The thirty-fourth richest, Marshall Field, born in 1834.

排名第三十四位的馬歇爾.菲爾德出生于1834年。

The thirty-fifth richest, George Baker, born in 1840.

排名第三十五位的喬治.貝克出生于1840年。

Number thirty-six, Hetty Green, 1834.

排名第三十六位的海蒂.葛琳出生于1834年。

Number forty-four, James G. Fair, born in 1831.

排名第四十四位的危姆斯.G.菲爾出生于1831年。

Then Henry Rogers, born in 1840, J. P. Morgan, born in 1837.

亨利.H .羅格斯出生于1840年，J . P .摩根出生于1837年。

Oliver Payne, born in 1839.

奧利弗.佩恩則出生于1839年。

George Pullman, born in 1831.

喬治普爾曼出生于1831年。

Peter Widener born, in 1834.

彼得.韋爾登出生于1834年。

and Philip Armour, born in 1832.

菲利普.阿默爾出生于1832年。

What's going on here? The answer becomes obvious if you think about it.

這意味著什么?如果你仔細(xì)想想，答案就一目了然了。

In the 1860s and 1870s, the American economy went through perhaps the greatesttransformation4 in its history.

19世紀(jì)60年代和70年代，正是美國(guó)歷史上經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)生最大變革的時(shí)代。