"You can control what you think. And therefore you can control who you are... With neuroplasticity on my side, I can literally become exactly who I want to be. (Olympic champion Eileen Gu)"
"Your brain rewires itself based on how you repeatedly think and respond... You become who you are by how you frame things."
"When races get brutal - and they always do - she doesn't say: 'This is miserable.' She says: 'This is what I trained for.' She reframes pain as proof. She reframes fatigue as growth. She reframes suffering as part of the process. That's not accidental toughness. That's trained thinking."
A 70-year-old cyclist with 155,000+ miles of experience discovers neuroplasticity—the brain's ability to rewire itself through repeated thought patterns. The cyclist learns that becoming stronger physically requires first becoming someone who thinks differently. By reframing challenges like wind, hills, age, and pain as opportunities rather than obstacles, cyclists and endurance athletes train their minds to handle difficulty. This mental approach, demonstrated through decades of cycling in harsh West Texas conditions and mirrored in the cyclist's ultra-marathon runner daughter, shows that toughness is not accidental but a trained skill developed through deliberate cognitive reframing of adversity.
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