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A white man was unsuccessful in trying to catch monkeys. Native took a narrow mouth pot and placed cookie at bottom. Monkey reached in grabbed cookie, but couldn’t remove hand. Was stuck didn’t think of letting go! We don’t want to get trapped into fixed methods of doing things to the point where we can’t see any other way. Babies tend to do the same thing (grasping reflex) “lock-on” to finger, can’t let go.