Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25620577-20141114171551


 * http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Did_the_monkey_banana_and_water_spray_experiment_ever_take_place

In the article I posted an experiment is described. If it is too long, I will sum it up:

5 monkeys are in a cage. There are bananas hanging from the ceiling with a ladder leading up to them.

When one of them try to go after the bananas all of them get sprayed with a fire hose.

They soon stop going after the bananas.

A new monkey replaces one of the others. He goes after the bananas and the others stop him and beat him up.

The fire hose is removed.

One by one each original monkey is replaced. All newcomers go after the bananas and all of them are stopped and beaten up by both the old and new monkeys. The replacements do not know of the fire hose, they are just doing it because everybody does it.

Now all of the monlkeys are replaced. None of them ever knew of the fire hose.

Any affitional monkeys added to the cage are stopped and beaten up when they try to go after the bananas.

So what is the point of this article?

Stop and think about it for a minute. We all developed patterns throughout our lives. Some are beneficial while some are not.

We have fears about trying or succeeding at certain things because at some point every attempt at success in that area was met with either failure or negative consequence enforced by others.

We also avoid trying to do certain things because at some point we were told trying to do so is wrong or "evil."

Whether you came this far into the article or just skipped through it, I will just get to the point here:

If you want to progress in the disciplines mentioned on this site and similar sites or succeed in life in general, you must take time to examine your patterns and ask yourself why you do or do not do certain things, and what is really holding you back.

You have no more reason to not succeed or gain what you seek, there is n firehose now. Go for the banana. 