Eddie Pinero

The values under the surface, if you will.

So here's what these hunters would do.

Here's the context.

They would take this sort of narrow necked jar and they'd place something sweet inside of it.

So say fruit or nuts or something just valuable enough for the animal to want to grab and they'd leave it alone.

And then, theoretically, a monkey would come along eventually, and it would be curious, and it would peer inside, and it would reach its hand down through the narrow opening, wrap its fingers around the food.

And it was in that moment where there was a turning point, right, where things changed.

Because with an open hand, it can move freely.

It can release its hand from the jar.

But with a closed fist, it's stuck.

The opening that allowed it in is now too small to let it out.

And here's the part that matters.

The monkey doesn't understand the trap for obvious reasons.

It doesn't think, hey, I should let go.

It thinks I need to pull harder.

So it struggles and struggles and struggles and it jerks its arm and twists and panics.

The more it fights, the more convinced it becomes that something outside of it is holding it there.

And all the while, the solution's just sitting quietly in its hand.

It's like, let go, that's it, that's all you need to do.

No strength, no struggle, no effort, no force, just release.