Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Boiling Frog

If you place a toad in a pot of boiling water, it will jump out, try to escape with all it's might and agility that it has. But if you put it in the pot with a warm water,and slowly heat it up, the toad will not notice the fatal place it's in, and will die eventually in the heat.

Well, with a minute of research in this topic, Wikipedia says some claim that this is not really true in its literal sense, for a toad will eventually jump out by the time it feels the water is too hot.

I have learned a lesson today. That is to seek every possible truth in every premise. I don't want to use this metaphor to point a lesson, not because it's not true, because we all know that many Aesop's fables are incredible, but because the act of subjecting a frog to such conditions suggest an experimental method, and the lesson, the conclusion derived from this experiment. Well, some say the result is different, so I guess so should the lesson.

Change is easier when it's gradual.

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