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Find someone who has to windsurf for a living and you'll find one who procrastinates.
by CPLX 7y ago
Find someone who has to windsurf for a living and you'll find one who procrastinates.
- freediver 7y agoIf you know one that procrastinates ask them if they still have passion for it?
- Reedx 7y agoIf they are windsurfing for someone else, probably... But it doesn't seem like top pro athletes and olympians procrastinate. They are intrinsically driven.
- quickthrower2 7y agoSome selection bias there. People who procrastinate at stuff don’t become olympians, I’d guess.
- hinkley 7y agoSurvivor bias for sure. Lots of parents would rather have a happy child than a gold medal. Once the kid is miserable it becomes a hobby.
- suprfnk 7y ago> But it doesn't seem like top pro athletes and olympians procrastinate. I don't think you can become a top pro athlete or olympian if you're not the fraction of a fraction of the world's population with immense intrinsic motivation, passion, ambition, and drive -- so this seems like survivorship bias.
- hinkley 7y agoAnd your coaches are the fraction of a fraction of the world’s hardest hard-asses. There’s a lot of external motivation there as well. That’s three people doing a tremendous amount of work to avoid one of them crying in the corner.