Jakob Ingebrigtsen is one of the greatest young talents in all of world sport, let alone athletics.
This afternoon (28), on the eve of his attempt to bask in even more history-making at the 35th European Athletics Indoor Championship in Glasgow, he provided an insight into how he ticks when the noise quietens and it is just his rivals and him waiting for the gun to fire.
'I don't think I am unbeatable,' said Ingebrigtsen. 'But I believe in myself when I am on the start line. I am there to win. I am not there to finish second or third.'
It is worth pausing at this point. These are not the words of a hardened, multi-championship veteran who is looking ahead to his next bid for glory. It is an 18-year-old student who is still at high school, but who defies the fact that he is only a teenager such is his maturity on and off the track.
This incredible Norwegian runner is indeed a pupil – and one who just happens to be the outdoor European 1500m and 5000m champion and a double SPAR European U20 Cross country champion.
Whatever awaits the sell-out crowd in Glasgow over the next three days, Ingebrigtsen's bid to become the first man to win the 1500m and 3000m double at the same European Indoor Championships will be one of the stories of the weekend.
Can it be achieved? The way he talks, he is only thinking of winning and course back in Belgrade in 2017, such a double was landed by Laura Muir, who will raise the roof if she wins both golds again here.
Once more he will face his older brothers Filip, over both distances and Henrik, over the 1500m.
But it will take some doing; the heats of the 1500m on Friday morning start at 11.55am and the 3000m follow in less than two hours' time at 1.20pm.
There will be no time for recovery.
That will come over the 30 hours which follow before the 3000m final on Saturday night and then the 1500m on Sunday, the last individual men’s track final.
Jakob is his making his indoor championship debut and should he succeed, his status will only increase, though as he said of life after his Berlin glory: 'Not much has changed. I am still training and I still go to high school. I am always trying to develop as a runner. The major championships are what matters to me .'
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He was sitting at the top table in the spectacular setting of the Glasgow City Chambers, alongside British pair Rachel Miller, who was second in the 60m at the SPAR British Indoor Championships, and Eilidh Doyle, the world indoor 400m bronze medallist. They were joined by France's European 110m hurdles champion Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, who won 60m hurdles gold in Prague in 2015.
Martinot-Lagarde has the full European indoor medal set. He won bronze in Gothenburg six years ago and he is looking to make an upgrade on his silver medal from Belgrade two years ago when he was out-dipped by Andrew Pozzi.
'I am lucky because I have earned every medal in these championships,' said Martinot-Lagarde. 'In 2017, I lost my title and I want the gold medal again. I will be happy if I do it. The competition is hard. I have seen my rivals running fast.'
He is second on the 2019 European lists this year with 7.52, just behind Spain's Orlando Ortega with 7.49. The French star said: 'I am not very far behind him. I have good motivation. I want to be the best. I love my sport and I love competing and the challenge after training for such a long time. I always say an athlete is only one injury from being injured.'
Doyle is relishing competing in front of the Scottish crowd.
'I am here because it is in Glasgow,' she said. 'I did not want to miss out. As soon as I knew it was going to be here, it was on my calendar.'
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A year ago Doyle won world indoor bronze in Birmingham - her first global individual medal - and she will also be part of the British 4x400m relay team which she led to silver in Belgrade.
For Miller, who finished second behind defending European champion Asha Philip to qualify for these championships in Birmingham, it is her first major championship. She is in one of the most competitive of all events in which Poland's Ewa Swoboda has been outstanding all winter and Philip looks poised to challenge as well.
'I have no expectations,' said Miller. 'To make the British team is amazing and I am taking everything in. The only challenge is what I have in my own head. I don't allow other people or competitors to interfere with my mental state. I am ready for anything.'