You have to break a few eggs to make an omelette

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Proverb: You have to break a few eggs to make an omelette

Yes, I know it’s sad, especially if you’re an egg, but it’s true: you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette.

While you may consider that a straightforward statement of fact, there’s a little more to the expression than meets the eye.

You guys know I’m an English teacher, and I wouldn’t bring up this proverb if there weren’t a deeper meaning behind it.

This proverb means that to accomplish something great, mistakes are going to happen, sacrifices will be made, and some people will be left unhappy.

In the Western world, we live in a time of constant creative destruction.

For innovations to be put into place, the old ways need to come to an end.

Unfortunately, for many of us, it comes down to Darwin’s theory of the survival of the fittest.

Only those who can adapt to new ways of doing things can survive, and the rest, well, they end up as broken eggs.

I know it’s pretty sad and perhaps even enough to make you angry.

Now, don’t get mad at me.

I’m a simple messenger.

To make an omelette, you have to break a few eggs, and that’s all there is to it.

Although many technologies, such as self-driving cars and automated translation software, are still nascent, they will eventually come online.

When these newfangled technologies arrive, many people will either lose their jobs or adapt to take new posts in new fields.

It’s always been this way.

That’s why the proverb You have to break a few eggs to make an omelette is still around today.

As I said at the beginning, it’s sad but true.

New stuff always replaces the old things with a few broken eggs left in its wake.

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