Do Twins have a Competitive Advantage?

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Twin Births have reached an all time high according to a study by the National Center for Health Statistics. According to the study," one out of every 30 babies born in 2009- a 76 % increase since 1980". is a twin. A recent article in the Style Section of the NY times January15, 2012 explored the doubled success of twins in the fashion and design world who had changed their competitiveness into a fusion of identities and capitalize on being twins.

"In person, the identical twins Kirk and Nate Mueller are an uncanny site. The neatly coffied hair, the ASOS leather boots, the red lapel flowers from Hook and Albert, the brown wool Topman suits- everything about them is almost exactly alike. Even their jobs: designing sleep I Pad apps and web sites, which has made them overnight design celebrities. " These media darlings were crowned the "twiniest twins every". They split a bank account and an apartment. they share an email address and both work at Studio Mercury in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. They don't mind when people confuse them.

According to Kirk Meuller," Teachers, parents were always trying to keep us separated to have two separate identities". They rebelled and fused their identities and found success in their combined abilities. It's one plus one equals three.

Others who capitalized on their twinness are artists Mike and Doug Starn who built the bamboo web on the roof the Metropolitan Museum in 2010. Teman and Teran Evans run a sucessful jewelery design company called Dioscuri. Dean and Dan Caten are fashion designers from DSquared 2.

Not all twins are willing to submit to oneness for the sake of business. Vera Correll, half of the fashion label Correll- Correll and her sister Daphne wanted their label to repeat their last names so that clients recognized that there were two individuals running one business. The even have different hairstyles, live separtely and clearly divide their business responsibilites.

As parents dealing with twins, you can try to give them separate identities and treat them differentlhy.It may be the simple decision of whether to give them a twin gift or individual gifts.At the end of the day , however, the twins decide for themselves who they want to be and how they want the world to perceive them.