Passage 1  Some people were just born to rebel; Ch...
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Passage 1  Some people were just born to rebel; Charles Darwin was  1 of them. Likewise Nicholas Copernicus, Benjamin Franklin and Bill Gates. They were  2 “laterborns” —that is, they had at least one older sibling — brother or sister — when they were born.  In fact, laterborns are up to 15 times more  3 than firstborns to resist authority and  4 new ground, says Frank J. Sulloway, a researcher scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  In his book “Born To Rebel” being released this week, Sulloway claims that 5 someone is an older or younger sibling is the most important  6 shaping personality—more significant  7 gender, race, nationality or class.  He  8 26 years studying the lives—and birth orders—of 6,566 historical figures to  9 his conclusions.  A laterborn himself, Sulloway first posed how birth order  10 personality as a scholar of Darwin at Harvard University.  “ 11 could a somewhat commonplace student at Cambridge become the most revolutionary thinker in the 19th century?” he said.  Darwin, the first to  12 the belief  13 God created the world with his theory of evolution, was the fifth of six 14 . Most of his opponents were firstborns.  Sulloway’s theory held  15 with Copernicus, the first astronomer to propose that the Sun was the center of the universe, and computer revolutionary Gates of Microsoft.

发布日期:2022-07-08

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