Mini Motivation #108 - Do We Behave like the The Five Monkeys

Once there were five monkeys kept in a cage. At the corner of the cage, was a ladder, and it leads to a big bunch of bananas. The first monkey saw it, and following it's instincts, it quickly climbed up with ladder, eager to reach the bananas.

The zoo keeper, seeing that, quickly sprayed a stream of cold water at it, causing it to fall off the ladder. The zookeeper than continued to spray the other four monkeys as well. All the monkeys huddled up in a corner, shivering from the cold blast of water. They all looked at the bunch of bananas, and the ladder that led to it.

Then, the second money decided that the cold water was just a separate, unrelated incident, and it decided to make the climb for the bananas. Again, the zookeeper doused it with cold water, from head to toe, and it ran off the ladder, shivering. The other monkeys were not spared too - they were also sprayed with another blast of cold water.

As they dried themselves off, the third monkey, giving in to its instincts, decided to try for the banana again. However, the moment it reached at ladder and tried to climb it, the other four monkeys quickly ran after it, dragged it off the ladder, and beat it.

The banana remained unreachable.

Then, the zookeeper replaced the first monkey with a new one, and of course the new one, upon seeing the bunch of ripe bananas ready for the taking, decided to go for it. Boy, was the new monkey shocked when the others just dragged it down, and beat it as well.

This continued until all the original five monkeys were replaced with new ones. And interestingly, each of them were beaten up whenever they tried for the ladder and the banana, though none of them ever got sprayed by the cold water.

Have you, or your team, ever behaved as such in your company? Or perhaps in your community? Or heck, your family? Are there "traditions" or beliefs that are kept and upheld, but no one ever questioned why the rules were such in the first place?

Or worse still. Have you ever let the failure of others, without a proper reasons, ever stopped you from doing something right? Do you not stand up for what you want, the justice you want to see served, just because the people around you are pressuring you not to? Are we at all any different from those monkeys?

Mini Motivation is my own daily strategy to inspire myself. Mostly 3-minute reads.

From Motivation, we gain Inspiration. From Inspiration, we achieve Momentum. And the rest, they say, is history.

Hope it helps nudge you a bit too in the right direction.

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