When powerful needs arise, people regress to primitive thinking states that are far more motivating than higher-level needs — like a mother gaining superhuman strength to lift a car off her trapped ch

Eben provides the specific example: 'you hear stories of, you know, a child becoming trapped under a car and a mother picking the car up, you know, to free the child' and explains this demonstrates 'different levels of motivation, different levels of strength when our kind of more primitive drives take over'