There is an "aggressive normal" one can reach and live within for a while. It requires a schedule that includes daily cardio, a strict healthy diet, and attenti

There is an "aggressive normal" one can reach and live within for a while. It requires a schedule that includes daily cardio, a strict healthy diet, and attention to all the guides and rules for how to "live healthy" as well as how to "study in a University setting" but you're not in a university setting, you're in your post University life still pushing at that same "Dean's list" level. I managed to live like this for a good decade and a half, pushed into it by a dotcom startup in '99. I simply liked the aggressively analytical life style and used it to transition from video games to VFX, become a specialist within VFX (actor replacement), get an MBA in less time than normal, do my own startup, write and acquire a global patent, go bankrupt, change industries to FR & AI, and become a principal engineer in that industry. Writing FR software simply exhausted me, and I lost (or aged out) of my ability to maintain such an aggressive schedule. While "in the zone" it was amazing how much I could do in a week.