Recently I read an article an article on facebook, a class experiment to make all the students understand socialism and its effect on personal growth. It was a very nice experiment in which the professor through a life example make all the students realize the negative effect of socialism on an individual.
Anyways, after reading that article, I started to ponder on what really drives human aspiration, desire to succeed. Which of the seven deadly sins can we attribute this to or is it a good thing?
It is not a rhetorical question but a very important question to think about. The answer to this on individual level will help many to answer many of their moral dilemmas. Many situations has arrived, must have also arrived in front of you to choose between two of your dearest things. Choosing one will automatically disqualify the other. So what should you choose? Why should you choose? What was the reason behind the two offerings? Kind of tough to answer.
I have always believed and will always believe its self greed and not any other feelings like competitiveness, ego, self satisfaction, inner peace or any other feeling to be sole motivator to achieve scales of success. Whatever the achievement, whatever the path chosen, it all starts with a small feeling "Greed". The scientist who discovered penicillin which helped many, started with a greed to quench his thirst of knowledge. It culminated to discoveries and the desire and greed to do something unimaginable.
Its Greed which turns this world around. Many discoveries, forms of art, literature can somehow be traced back to one man's dream and to little his greed. Greed has and will always be the root cause of a man's actions which can then be traced to other people and their greed. Greed is all around us. Look outside the window, look over to your closed ones. Each and everyone is full of it and exploiting its true nature to achieve success.
An interesting question might come to your mind. What about people who do services which are before self. Its all crap! Each and every person always has a motive, a reason to do so which in turn satisfies their greed. Free lunch is no such concept. The quicker an individual realizes this, the better it will be for him.
The only exception I believe to this rule are people who achieve nirvana (religious people).They have and will always be mystery to me.
I have taken today's world as an example and not olden times as my case study.
Link to the article
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2416109117390&set=p.2416109117390&type=1&ref=nf
Anyways, after reading that article, I started to ponder on what really drives human aspiration, desire to succeed. Which of the seven deadly sins can we attribute this to or is it a good thing?
It is not a rhetorical question but a very important question to think about. The answer to this on individual level will help many to answer many of their moral dilemmas. Many situations has arrived, must have also arrived in front of you to choose between two of your dearest things. Choosing one will automatically disqualify the other. So what should you choose? Why should you choose? What was the reason behind the two offerings? Kind of tough to answer.
I have always believed and will always believe its self greed and not any other feelings like competitiveness, ego, self satisfaction, inner peace or any other feeling to be sole motivator to achieve scales of success. Whatever the achievement, whatever the path chosen, it all starts with a small feeling "Greed". The scientist who discovered penicillin which helped many, started with a greed to quench his thirst of knowledge. It culminated to discoveries and the desire and greed to do something unimaginable.
Its Greed which turns this world around. Many discoveries, forms of art, literature can somehow be traced back to one man's dream and to little his greed. Greed has and will always be the root cause of a man's actions which can then be traced to other people and their greed. Greed is all around us. Look outside the window, look over to your closed ones. Each and everyone is full of it and exploiting its true nature to achieve success.
An interesting question might come to your mind. What about people who do services which are before self. Its all crap! Each and every person always has a motive, a reason to do so which in turn satisfies their greed. Free lunch is no such concept. The quicker an individual realizes this, the better it will be for him.
The only exception I believe to this rule are people who achieve nirvana (religious people).They have and will always be mystery to me.
I have taken today's world as an example and not olden times as my case study.
Link to the article
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2416109117390&set=p.2416109117390&type=1&ref=nf
