Till Pape is a professional basketball player and is also doing a doctorate. He plays for the Telekom Baskets Bonn in the German basketball Bundesliga.
He is also studying medicine and is currently writing his doctoral thesis. How does he reconcile both? By learning anytime, anywhere – and using his personal superpower, he tells SPIEGEL: “I sleep on the team bus between training sessions. That's how I usually get seven hours in a row - which my body needs"