Carrot, egg or coffee: learn how you handle adversity

A young woman, overwhelmed by life’s challenges, turned to her grandmother for advice. Instead of words, her grandma led her to the kitchen, boiled carrots, eggs, and coffee beans in separate pots, then asked her to observe the results.

The carrot, once hard, became soft. The egg, once fragile, turned hard inside. But the coffee beans? They transformed the water into something rich and fragrant. Her grandmother explained: “Each faced the same boiling water, but responded differently.