Monday, July 26, 2010

The Boiled Frog Effect

Have a frog sit in water while you slowly increase the temperature - and they say you can boil the frog alive. Throw a frog in boiling hot water and he jumps out right away.

As a new entrant to the workforce - I feel like jumping out of the boiling water that is my work .... whereas my (older) coworkers are a bunch of boiled frogs. The problem is that, currently, I can not affect the trajectory of my company's future.....I have to 'gain experience'....I'm scared that by the time I gain this 'experience,' I myself will be a boiled frog.

2 comments:

  1. This boiling a frog saying has been around a long time, but I listened to a talk (can't recall who) sometime in the last 2 years and the speaker said that frogs aren't stupid like that. When the water's too hot they hop right out.

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  2. Yeah I've read that as well...on Wikipedia i believe. Seems as though the metaphor is more interesting/truthful than what nature would suggest.

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