Of the many people asked this question, 98% answered incorrectly, by saying that it was the monkey. How did you respond? If you also guessed ~ the monkey ~ reread this blog's title and the question.
Or did you join me in the 11/2 %, who immediately knew that the question was not valid because bananas do not grow on coconut trees. The remaining 1/2% of people said one of the other animals.
Those animal people (not you, of course) jumped to a conclusion before listening to the end.
One astute woman said, after she learned the correct answer, "I believe that I and all the other people who said the monkey were unconsciously connecting monkeys and bananas. This is a good illustration of the role that our unconscious mind influences our decision making." Indeed a wise woman. Thank you bank teller Kate.
Many of those 98% people often wonder why their lives take so many unexpected turns, rarely realizing that they had acted or reacted to information that they had not listened or read to the end; they had impatiently jumped to a conclusion before the conclusion.
Then there are the people who when in conversation with you, rarely allow you to complete even a sentence without interrupting, saying when you complain, "That's all right, I know what you are going to say," then proceed to right angle turn the intent of your thought.
There is a famous Pennsylvania Dutch (originally "deutsch" German for the word meaning german) sentence, using that language's sentence structure ~ "He threw his mother from the train, ~ ~ the jumpers would have had ~ him ~ arrested and jailed without waiting to learn the whole sentence ~
"He threw his mother from the train, a kiss."
Get your life's "Kisses"
by avoiding
any conclusion jumping.
