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Monkeys’ Got Bananas
Posted by prashant kumar
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This story (actually a forked version of what I had read few years ago, sorry don’t remember the source) was liked a lot on google buzz, thought to share on my blog as well:
On some weird day, a scientist Dr. X puts 5 monkeys in a cage. And, he attaches some of bananas at the ceiling of the cage. Now, whenever any monkey jumps for the bananas, Dr. X throws super hot/cold water on all of the monkeys. So after sometime, the monkeys understood the fact that if they don’t jump to grab the bananas, Dr. X won’t torture them with hot/cold water.
Then, Dr. X replaces one of the monkeys with a new monkey. As the new one did not know anything about the torture, seeing the bunch of bananas hanging at the ceiling of the cage, first he mocks the rest of the monkeys being too lazy as he wonder why none of them are going after the bananas and then jumps to grab them all for himself. Meanwhile, Dr. X decides to stop throwing water at them. But, anyway it made the old monkeys angry so they beat the crap out of the new one, until the new one understands that there is something wrong with reaching for the bananas.
Then again, Dr. X replaces one of the original old monkeys with another new monkey. And the same thing happens, but this time, the 1st new monkey joins the old/original monkeys and beat the crap out of the 2nd new monkey just for fun, remember that he (the 1st new monkey) does not know the reason why the older monkeys were doing that
Eventually, Dr. X replaces all the old/original monkeys, one by one, with new ones. By now, the cage has 5 new monkeys none of which are the original ones. The scenario now is that whenever any of them jumps to reach for the bananas, others beat the crap out of the *jumper* and none of them know why they are doing that.
Moral: There are a lot of things in life we do and we don’t know why we are doing them. So, it’s up to us, would we continue to do them or question them and use our brain; make our own lives
On some weird day, a scientist Dr. X puts 5 monkeys in a cage. And, he attaches some of bananas at the ceiling of the cage. Now, whenever any monkey jumps for the bananas, Dr. X throws super hot/cold water on all of the monkeys. So after sometime, the monkeys understood the fact that if they don’t jump to grab the bananas, Dr. X won’t torture them with hot/cold water.
Then, Dr. X replaces one of the monkeys with a new monkey. As the new one did not know anything about the torture, seeing the bunch of bananas hanging at the ceiling of the cage, first he mocks the rest of the monkeys being too lazy as he wonder why none of them are going after the bananas and then jumps to grab them all for himself. Meanwhile, Dr. X decides to stop throwing water at them. But, anyway it made the old monkeys angry so they beat the crap out of the new one, until the new one understands that there is something wrong with reaching for the bananas.
Then again, Dr. X replaces one of the original old monkeys with another new monkey. And the same thing happens, but this time, the 1st new monkey joins the old/original monkeys and beat the crap out of the 2nd new monkey just for fun, remember that he (the 1st new monkey) does not know the reason why the older monkeys were doing that
Eventually, Dr. X replaces all the old/original monkeys, one by one, with new ones. By now, the cage has 5 new monkeys none of which are the original ones. The scenario now is that whenever any of them jumps to reach for the bananas, others beat the crap out of the *jumper* and none of them know why they are doing that.
Moral: There are a lot of things in life we do and we don’t know why we are doing them. So, it’s up to us, would we continue to do them or question them and use our brain; make our own lives
