Welcome back to the podcast. My name is Joseph Clough and this is episode 734 and today we are talking about the cages

that we build within our mind that hold us back and the imposed needs that we have or

self-imposed needs that we put upon ourselves, which ultimately holds us back.

And they're invisible most of the time.

We don't even know what's going on.

Now, I'm going to paint a not a very nice picture in our mind.

We'll let go of it soon, but there was an experiment once.

There wasn't a very nice one,

but it's one which has a lesson as to how we can assume ideas and our self-imposed needs.

And they did it, unfortunately, with animals, and it was a, like a big cage, and there was monkeys

in it. And every time they would go for, or one would go for a

banana, everyone else would get like a light shock. So not very nice whatsoever. So of course,

every time when a monkey went to grab the banana, it happened again, they would then go ahead

and attack the monkey or try to pull the monkey

down from it because if the monkey didn't go for a banana, therefore no one would get

like that little zap.

So after a while they noticed the conditioning that they would stop the monkey go for that

banana. But interestingly enough, they began to kind of cycle through the monkeys,

so they would take one out and put another one in, and so on.

By the time at the end of the experiment about conditioning,

they were all fresh monkeys. But they would never, every time the monkey would go

for a banana, they would pull the monkey down without even knowing the consequence, right?

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