Our strongest Instinct: Survival.

I was told of an interesting story today so I thought I will contemplate on this with all of you:

Japan which has one of the world's richest fishery resources was looking for ways to keep their fishes fresh and alive after they were caught. Ships and boats which went shipping deep and far into the sea would catch fishes and put them in water tanks hoping they would make it to the shore fresh and alive. Unfortuantely the farther these boats went the smaller the chances of survival of the fishes became, causing them to die before they reached the shore. Storing fishes in the freezer was thought of as an alternative solution, but japaneese were not very welcoming to the taste of frozen fishes in comparison to the fresh water fish they were so used to. Other solutions were being looked for constantly but nothing really worked. Finally someone came up with a solution which used the most basic instinct of any living organism: It was suggested that a small shark be put in every tank that had fishes. The shark would eat up a few fishes, but the rest of the fishes in there would fight to survive and would make it to the coast...ALIVE! Indeed the solution worked. More fishes made it to the coast because of their survival instinct!

My morale of the story: We fight our best when we face the toughest situation. We give up too early when the challenges aren't challenging enough! So if you really want to exploit your potential have a predator on your head all the time...