The Boiling Frog Theory

Mahantesh Biradar
2 min readDec 27, 2016

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- Put a frog in a vessel of water and start heating the water.

- As the temperature of the water rises, the frog is able to adjust its body temperature accordingly.

- The frog keeps on adjusting with increase in temperature.

- Just when the water is about to reach boiling point, the frog is not able to adjust anymore.

- At that point the frog decides to jump out.

- The frog tries to jump but is unable to do so, because it lost all its strength in adjusting with the water temperature.

- Very soon the frog dies.

What killed the frog?

Many of us would say the boiling water. But the truth is what killed the frog was its own inability to decide when it had to jump out.

We all need to adjust with people and situations, but we need to be sure when we need to adjust and when we need to confront / face or even consciously move out / on.

There are times when we need to face the situation and take the appropriate action. Fight it & do it with all your honestly, sincerity and full force.

On the other side, if you are 110% sure that environment is beyond control or the objective is not providing adequate incentive, leave your ego, quit and move on to more productive cause in life.

Not only this will avoid your unnecessary suffering, this make you a better and balanced leader of your life and task in hand.

So, decide when to jump or adjust !

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Mahantesh Biradar

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