Yu Dan Shi became the first girl in China to graduate at the age of 14. She was called the only one, a child with exceptional memory and the highest IQ. She received a high position in a large company and at the age of 18 she led a large team of adults. However, high loads and a constant desire for great achievements almost cost the girl life. Yu Dan Shi herself talks about her experience, years later, and warns the young people to preserve their brains and simply enjoy their childhood and youth.
The beginning of the prodigy path
Yu Dan Shi was born in the family of a teacher and professor of physics. Despite the fact that the girl’s parents were extremely smart and achieved a lot in science, the family lived very modestly, almost at the poverty line. From childhood, the girl understood that she would have to make her way in life on her own. She began to work hard, leaving all her strength and time to study.
Mom studied with her according to a special program designed for gifted children. The brain of Yu Dan Shi was so unique that it could absorb and record any information, even in large volumes. The girl liked to learn, she was practically obsessed with this process, not wanting to notice anything around. Ordinary children's activities did not touch her, but her parents supported her daughter's desire to develop mentally to the maximum.
Graduation from school and university
The girl graduated from high school at 8 years old without any problems, she easily passed the exams for the high school program, enthralling the teachers. Yu Dan Shi also entered the university as an external student, the admissions committee did not even have to ask her questions. Many teachers later admitted that they had never before seen such a student with a brain similar to a powerful modern computer.
At first, such a young student was surprised at the university, but later they got used to it. Nobody tried to communicate with the supergirl - she was too impregnable and unusual. Because of constant sitting at textbooks, Yu Dan Shi was not at all able to communicate with people. She had theoretical knowledge on various topics, but she simply could not apply them in practice. She had no friends, gradually people began to avoid her.
First job and exorbitant loads
Already at the age of 18, Yu Dan Shi got a position in a large company. In her submission were experienced adults, but the girl pulled almost the entire business on herself. Due to the inability to communicate, she could not build the team's work correctly, believing that it would be easier for her to do the work of the entire department herself. She worked seven days a week for 14-16 hours a day. In a month she could earn more than her father in a whole year. She had to travel a lot to symposia and conferences, which was difficult physically and psychologically.
At 20, Yu Dan Shi woke up in the morning and saw herself in the mirror turning gray. During the night, she began to look like an exhausted woman in years, the girl's body began to give up. But she did not immediately understand the reason for this. She moved to Australia, got married and gave birth to two children, but her workload did not decrease. The woman also worked a lot, performing exorbitant volumes for the average person. This could not go on for so long, and once a catastrophe occurred.
Health problems
At the age of 30, Yu Dan Shi passed out right in the car. She was riding in the back seat of a taxi, and this may have saved her life. After 36 hours, the woman was operated on and informed that she could die due to an infection in the gallbladder. The disease developed inside more than one month, but because of the constant workload, the woman had no time to pay attention to her health.
Realizing that her children could be left without a mother, Yu Dan Shi decided to completely change her life for them and herself.She understood how she had tormented herself for many years, trying to become the best in everything. She had neither childhood nor youth, but only study and work with a huge amount of information impossible for an ordinary person.
A new outlook on life
Yu Dan Shi left her previous job and founded her own unique Inner Genius program for gifted children and youth. A woman, from her own experience, teaches people not to waste their precious time on unnecessary things, not to take on more than a normal body can bear. You need to strive for development, but not to the detriment of your personal life and your health - this is the main message of Yu Dan Shi to everyone who wants to reach heights. She conducts training at one of Sydney's universities, which is attended by hundreds of people.
The woman also published her book Come Alive, in which she warned young people against mistakes that had occurred to her at an early age. She explains how important it is not to cross the line between rationality and insanity, uncontrolled absorption of information. It can cost not only health, but also life, and who will need the skills and knowledge of the person who died under their oppression? The book immediately became a bestseller, because in our world of information and digital technology, everyone was obsessed with the mental development of children from the cradle. The position of a genius who went through suffering and realizes his wrong attitude to life deserves only respect.