Learn to let go — catching monkeys with coconuts

In Africa, the natives use an indigenous method for catching monkeys.

A baby snow monkey recently born at Highland Wildlife Park. (Image: © Jon Paul-Orsi.)

Natives hollow out coconut shells by cutting a small hole at one end. The whole is small enough to barely allow in a monkey’s hand. Inside the hollowed shell they place a few peanuts. They connect the coconut shell to a thick, strong cord and wait in hiding for the monkeys.

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When a monkey discovers the nuts inside the shell he reaches in to grasp the nuts causing the clenched fist to remain stuck. The native pulls on the cord as the monkey remains holding his peanuts.

Too often, we hold tightly to our own peanuts (ideas) for fear that we may lose them. It is these very ideas that hold us captive and prevent us from the freedom we long for.

Story is a paraphrased excerpt from “The Millionaire Mindset” by Gerry Robert

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