New Delhi, April 28 -- This Japanese proverb warns against the blindness of a narrow world. Limited experience produces limited thinking. In a fast-changing global environment, this proverb is more urgent than ever.

The frog lives at the bottom of a well. It knows the circle of sky above. It knows the damp walls around it. It knows the small pool it swims in. It believes this is the world.

It is not the world. The great sea exists just beyond the frog's knowledge. But the frog cannot miss what it has never seen.

That is the quiet danger this proverb describes. Ignorance does not always feel like ignorance. It often feels like confidence. It feels like expertise. It feels like certainty.

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