The Chinese-American freestyle skier Eileen Gu is a freak of a human being. The 24-year old reminds me of what Sherlock Holmes would sound like if he were a woman. Eileen is a prodigy: a scientist, model, politician, student, and athlete.
In a recent interview she was asked, “can you take us into your brain?” Eileen revealed that she is a very introspective woman. She journals. She has an analytical lens to her own thinking, breaking down her own thought process–like an engineer who breaks down a machine and tries to put all the components back together to really understand its inner mechanics. “You can control how you think, and therefore you can become whoever you want.”
Eileen approaches her brain like a scientist: experimenting with it. She enjoys monitoring every thought, tinkering with her thinking patterns, and leveraging neuroplasticity to improve herself. She does all this optimization so she can become the younger person of herself would be proud of.
Now that is powerful.