2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Keep your eyes open
Olivier Clerk's fable about the “frog in boiling water” is based on a real physical experiment: “If the rate of heating of the water temperature does not exceed 0.02 ºC per minute, the frog continues to sit in the pot and dies at the end of cooking. At a higher speed, it jumps out and stays alive."
As Olivier Clerk explains, if you put a frog in a pot of water and heat it gradually, it will gradually increase its body temperature. When the water starts to boil, the frog will no longer be able to control its body temperature and will try to jump out. Unfortunately, the frog has already spent all its strength and lacks the final impulse to jump out of the pot. The frog dies in boiling water, doing nothing to escape and stay alive.
The frog in boiling water wasted all its strength, trying to adapt to the circumstances and at a critical moment could not jump out of the pan to escape, because it was already too late.
Boiling Frog Syndrome is one of the types of emotional stress associated with difficult situations in life that we cannot avoid and have to endure circumstances to the end until we burn out completely
Little by little, we fall into a vicious circle that drains us emotionally and mentally and makes us almost helpless.
What killed the frog: the boiling water or the inability to decide when to jump out?
If the frog is immediately immersed in water heated to 50 ºC, it will jump out and stay alive. As long as she stays in the water at a temperature that is tolerable for her, she does not understand that she is in danger and must jump out.
When something bad comes very slowly, we often don't notice it. We do not have time to react and breathe toxic air, which, in the end, poisons us and our lives. When change is slow enough, it doesn't trigger any reaction or attempt at resistance.
This is why we often fall prey to the boiling frog syndrome at work, in the family, in friendships and romantic relationships, and even within society and the state.
Even when addiction, pride, and selfish demands run over the edge, we still find it difficult to understand how destructive their impact can be.
We may be delighted that our partner needs us all the time, our boss relies on us to assign certain tasks to us, or that our friend needs constant attention.
Sooner or later, constant demands and nagging dull our reactions, we waste energy and the ability to see that this is actually an unhealthy relationship.
This process of silent adaptation gradually begins to control us and enslaves us, starting to control our life step by step. This dulls our vigilance and we do not know what we really need in life.
For this reason, it is important to keep our eyes open and appreciate what we like. In this way, we can divert our attention from what is weakening our abilities.
We can only grow up if we are able to experience discomfort over time.
The fact that we stand up for our rights may not please those around us, as they are accustomed to the fact that we give them everything absolutely disinterestedly and without the slightest reproach.
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