In the winter of 2006, Lydia Angyiou, a 41-year-old mother of two, fought a polar bear and survived. Angyiou and her two young sons were walking by the local community center when a group of kids playing ice hockey began frantically shouting. Turning around, Angyiou saw a 700-pound polar bear staring down her 7-year-old. Instinctively, she put herself between the beast and her child, yelled for the boys to run and get help, and began to kick and punch the bear until a man arrived with a rifle.
We hear stories like this from time to time, of men and women carrying out extraordinary acts of will, often using—through the power of adrenaline—what seems like otherworldly strength. It seems the potential capacity of human willpower is far greater than what most of us imagine.
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