What do you work for?No. 74

Never Give Up. Never Be Defeated. Never Lose Conviction.

Our principles, addressed to the world, are three lines in English: Never Give Up. Never Be Defeated. Never Lose Our Conviction. They may look alike; they fight different enemies. "Never give up" fights your own heart — the voice at the wall whispering "enough."

"Never be defeated" fights the outside — rivals, adversity, unexpected waves; pushed hard, you refuse to stay down. And "never lose our conviction" fights success itself: when things begin to work, people learn to compromise, rounding their convictions down to "good enough." The third enemy is the strongest.

Our history is field training in all three: we didn't give up while working part-time jobs at the bottom; we weren't defeated by wave after unexpected wave; and now, having listed, we are being tested by the third. Which of the three are you fighting today?

What do you work for?

— Tomoki Nagano, Chairman & CEO, INSTINCT BIO TECHNICAL COMPANY (NASDAQ: BIOT)

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