10 People Who Overstepped Human Limits

The physical and cognitive capabilities of the human body generally have a limit, but psychologists believe that it is our brain that controls these limits, restricting or exceeding them. People who overcome these limits are living proof that all these barriers are nothing more than an illusion.

O awesome.club gathered some stories of people who challenged the limits of body and mind. See the list all the way to the end to find out if they did it as intense training, as part of an experiment, or even by accident.

Josh lost a leg at the age of 10 due to a rare type of bone cancer. He beat the disease at 13 and started ski training 3 years later. After 6 years of training, he made the United States Paralympic ski team. Today he is known for being a motivational speaker and one of the best-selling authors in the country, for his self-help works. He is also famous for the very original costumes he wears every year to celebrate Halloween.

When George Dantzig applied for a doctorate at the University of California, USA, he was late and missed his statistics class. He found two theorems written on the blackboard and copied them into his homework. He solved statistics problems for professors without knowing that they were considered “unsolvable”. Later these theorems became part of his dissertation.

After Jason Padgett was savagely attacked outside a bar, not only did he suffer a severe concussion, he also began to see the world through geometry. Prior to his injury, he was a furniture salesman.

After her, gained the ability to visualize mathematical objects and to understand very complex physics concepts.

According to scientists, Jason is a rare example of someone who acquires Savant syndrome, a condition that causes normal people to develop unusual abilities after a serious illness or a very strong injury.

Austrian Reinhold Messner is a climbing legend. He holds several records. FHi the first man to climb every 8,000-meter mountain without bottled oxygen🇧🇷 Until then, climbing Everest without oxygen was considered by doctors and experts to be an impossible feat, and yet Reinhold managed to accomplish it. He climbed his first mountain at the age of 5 and was also the first person to reach the top of Everest alone.

The danger of climbing a great height without oxygen supply is that the body is forced to work with much more limitations, even leading people to have difficulty in making decisions. As a result, more red blood cells are produced and blood flows more slowly. In addition, blood vessels experience increased pressure. Therefore, the regions above this altitude are called Death zone🇧🇷

This Slovenian cyclist has a record of 834.77 kilometers without stopping to pedal (not even to pee) and was known for his extreme endurance (he slept only an hour a night during races that lasted a week). According to the scientists, the secret to this ultra-endurance is that Jure ignored his own brain’s messages about fatigue and only listened to what his team decided about when he had to rest, how much he had to eat and how fast he had to run.

Austrian diver Herbert Nitsch has broken an impressive 33 diving world records. The most impressive record was his dive to 253.2 meters without an oxygen cylinder.🇧🇷 During this dive, he temporarily fell asleep due to nitrogen narcosis and the planned decompression stop was missed. As a result, he suffered a severe decompression sickness (a typical diver’s affliction), but despite and against all odds, he continues to train and practice diving.

Chul Soon remembers that when he was 20 years old, he weighed only 56 kilos and was constantly bullied for being a skinny teenager. Decided to change 12 years ago and started training that included 3,000 squats per day. With a careful diet and intense training, he became Korea’s most famous bodybuilder.

In 1964, 17-year-old Randy Gardner, stayed awake for 11 days and 25 minutes for a science experiment🇧🇷 During that time, their cognitive, sensory and physical abilities were monitored. On the last day of the experience, she even gave a press conference, speaking naturally and without stumbling over her words. Surprisingly, he showed no ill effects from being awake for 11 days when the experiment ended.

Evangelos Katsioulis is a Greek psychiatrist and psychotherapist, founder of the world intelligence network (The World Intelligence Network), a society for gifted people. The average score on an intelligence quotient (IQ) test is 100 and the most people have scores between 85 and 114. Evangelos scored 198.

Evangelos says he believes in the power of the human brain and hopes to contribute to facilitating mental expressions, promoting creativity, improving productivity and maximizing educational results by analyzing people’s potential.

Tetrachromacy (or tetrachromatism) is a condition caused by a genetic variation that influences the development of the retina. While a normal human eye is able to distinguish a million colors, the American Concetta Antico, a tetrachromat and artist, can differentiate up to 100 million colors. It is believed that about 1% of the world’s population is tetrachromatic.

Concetta has her own gallery in San Diego, California, where she creates vibrant and colorful paintings. She also intends to develop a system that helps tetrachromats reach and realize their full potential.

Did you learn anything surprising from the list above? Which of these people do you believe has pushed the limits of the brain and body to the utmost? Share your opinion in the comments!