Summon the strength of Hercules!

Many of us have read of reports of extraordinary feats of strength performed by very ordinary people under extreme circumstances.

One of the famous examples I have read about is a mother lifting the back of the car when she found that her child was trapped beneath it.

Then there's the true case of a man who rescued a number of people by extending his entire body as a bridge between a body's length gap between two protuding rocks over great heights.

His strength and endurance was short of miraculous. On a smaller scale, my own dad was in his teens when he was shot at by a rogue Japanese Zero fighter plane. Bullets were ricocheting off the off as he ran as fast as he could and then leapt over a wide drain to escape death.

The next day he returned to the scene where the death-defying moment took place and found out to his surprise that the drain he had leapt across was very much wider than he thought. Ordinarily, he wouldn't have been able to achieve that physical feat.

Herein lies my argument, deep in the psyche of all human beings is the power to perform amazing physically deeds. We normally will not be able to do this or that kind of task even if we want to do them.

But sometimes, in the midst of a terrible situation, the body forgets its limitations and the mind takes over. That's when the normal becomes the abnormal and human beings become superheroes.

One day perhaps, science will be able to tap this source of enormous energy and uncover what is that that makes us so amazingly extraordinary at certain desperate times of our lives.