Gad Saad

Now, the explanation is mind-blowing.

You ready?

So Frank Soloway argued that typically when we study the psychological effects of birth order, it's from the perspective of the parent's behavior to the child as a function of their birth order.

First child, I'm very strict.

Second child, I'm getting tired.

Fifth child, run the streets.

I don't give a shit, okay?

So that's the causality of the birth order effect.

He flipped the whole thing.

He said, no, no, no.

Much of the impetus of the birth order effect is coming from the child.

And let me explain how.

He said that one of the fundamental survival problems, it's an evolutionary theory,

One of the fundamental survival problems that a child faces is to differentiate itself from all other siblings to etch maximal investment from the parents.

How do I do that?

So that's called the Darwinian niche partitioning hypothesis.

When you start off, you're firstborn, all of the niches are unoccupied.

There is the, I'm a good boy niche.

I'm a rebel niche.

There's a panoply of niches that are unoccupied.