In “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”, Dr. John C. Maxwell tells a story of four monkeys locked inside a room with a tall pole with bananas on top. One of the monkeys tried to climb the pole to get them and was hit with a blast of water. Each of the others tried and were knocked off by the blast. Eventually they all quit trying. The experimenters then replaced one monkey with a new one who immediately tried to climb the pole and was pulled down by the others. They replaced each monkey one by one, and each new one tried to climb the pole but was pulled down. Eventually there were four monkeys that had never been hit with the water. None of them would climb the pole but didn’t know why. Don’t let the monkeys in your life pull you down while you’re trying to climb the ladder of success. In this video, Glenn explains how to do this.