THE MONKEY'S BRAIN IS BETTER THAN MAN

Malcolm De Chazal quoted " Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey"

So what about the monkey brain? The monkey brain is interested in chasing positive feelings and living in the moment. It wants to spend time with friends and experiences positive things without being challenged. The monkey brain seeks out these positive experiences by looking for the easy work or the job that will bring them passive income while they can sit on the beach eating coconuts and bananas.

Those influenced heavily by the monkey brain spend much of their days looking for ways to escape the rat race to spend time with their friends, but they don’t put in the effort necessary to achieve real success because they lack lofty goals. To train the monkey brain, you must start to look beyond your day to day routine to build habits which allow you to plan for longer term goals.

Training the monkey brain can be a challenge, because the monkey mindset is playful and is always looking for a good time. Unfortunately, in order to train the monkey brain you need to be your own parent. I’ll say that again, you must be your own parent if you want to get out of the monkey mindset. Many of us leave the house at or before the age of 18 to go to university.

After that, we rarely have direct contact with a parent or guardian figure. When we slip into the monkey brain state before that, our parents are often there to guide us in the right direction. Learn to be your own parent and you will be much better able to deal with the monkey in your head.

Farcically, we humans can be easily fooled into wasting money on flashy brands or avoiding cheap items because we assume they are low quality. Monkeys, meanwhile, are wiser about pricing, according to a 2014 study in Frontiers in Psychology in which monkeys were introduced to jello and flavored ice treats with various colors, some of which were priced higher than others.

Even after learning the pricing for each treat, the monkeys did not favor the more expensive option when they were given the chance to freely choose it. They seemed to understand that the quality was the same, regardless of the cost, which contrasts with similar studies on humans. So the next time you want to splurge on an expensive product simply because the cost implies high quality, you might want to ask yourself: What would a monkey do?

 Have the brain of a Monkey, a Capuchin monkey as such.