Some people learn from mistakes, some don’t and repeat the errors over and over.
And some don’t survive mistakes long enough to learn.
Take the old story about “Boiling A Frog.”
We are told that if a frog is in a pan of cool water and the temperature is raised very slowly, the frog adjusts and bears the warmer water. Supposedly (the story goes), he will just keep tolerating hotter and hotter water until he boils to death.
Of course, if you know your frogs (and you DO know frogs, don’t you?), they will eventually jump out. After all, even a frog can only put up with so much.
The lesson is figuring out the point when the frog decides to jump out.
The philosophers will ask “What killed the frog?” Was it the boiling water or the frog’s decision
