Are You a Boiled Frog?

The Parable of the Boiled Frog

The Parable of the Boiled Frog explains how change takes place over time and how we unfortunately tend to get ourselves stuck in situations that are not good for us.

How Comfortable are You?

The story goes like this: If you put a frog in cold water in a pot on the stove, and slowly warm up the water, the frog will get comfortable in his nice warm bath…not realizing that the increasingly hot water is draining all of his energy away, making it impossible for him to jump out of the pot at the point he finally realizes he is going to boil to death.

If on the other hand, you dropped that same frog into a pot of already boiling water, he would jump out immediately.

The moral of the story: Be ever vigilant about how comfortable you get in your current situation…you may be in more trouble than you think.

Our Greatest Strength is Our Weakness

The irony is that the very thing - perhaps our most amazing strength - that makes human beings so incredible, namely our ability to adapt and change over time to meet ever more demanding challenges, is the very same capacity that can be over-used and enable us to tolerate every increasingly harmful situation, while we rationalize away our discomfort and tell ourselves that everything is “just fine”.

It is important to remember that change typically happens slowly over time and that often in unhealthy situations we don’t realize how far we have sunk, as we incrementally lower the bar relative to what we expect from our job, our relationships, and most importantly from ourselves.

It Takes a Wake Up Call

It usually takes a shock to the system to wake us up and get us to do something different…to change. This may be getting fired (which incidentally is something I see all the time with my career transition clients), or should I say, they get themselves fired. Perhaps it is your partner having an affair or wanting a divorce. Perhaps it is a health crisis. In my case it took all three for me to get the point.

You know you cannot stay where you are, but you are scared to jump out, not knowing where you will land. But something deep inside of you is telling you that you cannot stay in your current situation and that change is required.

Are You Ready to Jump

If you suspect that you are sitting in a soon to-be-boiling pot of water, jump out while you still have the energy to do so? I encourage you not to worry about where you will land…because if you don’t jump, it won’t matter.

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