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		suprfnk on Aug 19, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Every productivity thought I've ever had, as conci... > 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 on Aug 19, 2019 [–]

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.

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