[Reedx]

If they are windsurfing for someone else, probably...

But it doesn't seem like top pro athletes and olympians procrastinate. They are intrinsically driven.

[suprfnk]

> 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]

And 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.

[quickthrower2]

Some selection bias there. People who procrastinate at stuff don’t become olympians, I’d guess.

[hinkley]

Survivor 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.