The Snake and the Saw: How Emotional Reactions Cause Harm

A snake was crawling over a saw. The saw gave him a small cut, a tiny one, but the snake thought the saw was attacking him.

He turned around and bit it, and cut his own mouth.

Furious, he wrapped himself around it with all his strength to crush it, and the harder he squeezed, the deeper he cut himself, until he died.

It wasn't the saw that killed him, it was his reaction.

There's a concept called the wild horse effect.

A small bat bites a horse. The wound is nothing, but the horse panics and runs until he collapses.

A small wound and a big reaction, that's what does the real damage.

And it happens to us every day. Someone leaves you a nasty comment, you snap back, and it stays in your head all day.

Someone provokes you in a small argument, and you turn it into a battle.

And in the end, your life, your time, and your energy go into things you could have let go in two seconds.

So, before you let someone make your blood boil, remember the snake and the saw.

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