the blurring distinction of home

One starts to understand how hard it is actually to continuously be disciplined to actually write things done, note things and actually publish it all on a blog when one actually begins a journey like this….Just one of those things.

Here’s something to have a ponder over, I found it quite amusing…

Here is an often repeated laboratory experiment in the graduate
psychology curriculum that invariably has the same results:

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 will make an attempt with the same
result - all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon,
when any 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 will see the banana and want
to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other
monkeys will 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. When
the newcomer goes to the stairs, it will be attacked. The “previous
newcomer” will take part in the punishment with enthusiasm!

Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then the
fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the
stairs, he will be 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 will ever again
approach 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
there.

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