Hey I am on a roll here.....

Start with a cage containing five monkeys.

Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water.

After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result - all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.

Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him.

After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.

Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm!

Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth.

Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.

After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the banana.

Why not?

Because as far as they know that's the way it's always been done around here.

And that, my friends, is how company policy begins.

Lady Zidane

(I am searching for my next installment)

LOL, that one's good! [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

LOL!!!! Nice!

:D :D :D

how did you know we're monkeys where I work? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

*ook* :D

Careful, or you'll be giving Lord Shield too many ideas about his workmates!

lol that is a good joke Zidane.

very interesting lol

It's not only "good", it's a pretty valid psychological principle. B.F. Skinner used it effectively; called "Operant Conditioning" on the theory of rewards and punishments on behavior modification. Interestingly enough, a motivator may only need to exist within the mind to be valid, and have no external force whatsoever.

Good one, Lady Zidane!

-Saz

O_O.... *a hand is waved in front of his face* O_O *stays the same°

*finally snaps out of it*

"i'm sorry, i just could've sworn i'd read the spoken word of God... so... analystical... darwin would be jelouse... as would any psychologist.. you should get a patent on this theory of yours, you might go down in history as a way of opening our eyes to the TRUTH"

*hand waves in front of face again*

"why do you keep doing that?"

"Because it's fun to watch your eyes follow it, weeee, *waves hand* weeee... *waves hand* "

<font color=Orange>That is just horrible. Horrible.</font>

You didn't get that from "The Contender", did you?

Admittedly, it was apes which were instead fitted with electrodes (!).