You mean these types of executives? No … well, sort of, maybe. Some people can control their thoughts and actions better than others.
Individuals vary widely in their abilities to control their own thoughts and actions. Some people seem ruled by impulses, while others manage successfully to regulate their behaviors. From the perspective of cognitive psychology, such variation reflects individual differences in executive functions, a collection of correlated but separable control processes that regulate lower-level cognitive processes to shape complex performance.
Results indicated that executive functions are correlated because they are influenced by a highly heritable (99%) common factor that goes beyond general intelligence or perceptual speed, and they are separable because of additional genetic influences unique to particular executive functions. This combination of general and specific genetic influences places executive functions among the most heritable psychological traits.
Whatever the genetics may suggest, I can name two common non-inherited conditions in which patients have executive function problems: anxiety disorder and ADHD. The first is caused by fatty maternal diet, which causes maternal cortisol to cross the placenta and epigenetically programme anxiety in the foetal brain. In contrast, ADHD is caused by maternal consumption of the same refined seed oils that cause Alzheimer’s disease. Neither condition is genetic, although there are a few weak and uncommon genetic modifiers in ADHD, of no clinical importance.