middle-aged

What is greed? Greed is the constant acceleration of the desire to be born, for the external things want faster and faster, the scope of more and more. But on the contrary, there is little satisfaction inside. This is the kind of person who cannot be quiet, cannot be quiet mind. They are not bad people, nor are they stupid, they are some people who are boxed in by human weakness.

1, greed can only end up with nothing

As H Shah said, "People have a most annoying thing in life, that is, a special greed for small profits behavior." Looking through the traditional culture we can see that the ancients on the greed of the summary of the spot: see money, see a profit and forget righteousness, money can make the ghost push the mill, "birds die for food, people die for money", "no profit can not afford to be early", "laugh at the poor, not the prostitute ", "small confusion shifts its direction, big confusion shifts its nature", "the little man will play favorites with his body", "profit makes wisdom faint", " The "principal and the wood", "greed compromises the nature", "the world is bustling for profit, the world is bustling for profit" ...... From these "traditions" we can From these "traditions" we can see the greed of the nation. Greed, the weakness of human nature, I think no one does not recognize, but in the interest of the drive, greed, and like a virus attacking their bodies.

A rich man's dog was lost on a walk, so the rich man posted a notice in the local newspaper: A dog was lost, and the person who returned it would pay a fee of $10,000. And a colorful photo of the dog filled most of the column.

After the announcement was published, there was a steady stream of dog senders, but none of them were the rich man's family. The rich man's wife said it must be the real pick-up dog for less money, it is a pure Irish dog. So the rich man called the newspaper, and the fee changed to $ 20,000.

A street beggar saw the announcement at the newsstand, he immediately ran back to the kiln where he lived, because the day before he picked up a dog while napping on a park lounger, and now the dog is in the kiln where he lives tethered. Sure enough is the rich man's dog, the beggar early the next morning, holding the dog out of the door, ready to receive 20,000 dollars. When he passed by a small newspaper stand, inadvertently saw the announcement, but the reward has become thirty thousand dollars.

The beggar and back to his kiln and the dog re-tethered there, On the fourth day, the reward amount rose again.

In the next few days, the beggar daily browse the local newspaper advertisement column, when the reward rose to make the city's citizens surprised, the beggar returned to his kiln. But the dog has died, because the dog in the rich man's home eats fresh milk and roast beef, the beggar from the garbage can pick things simply and can not stand it.

Whatever we want to do, we should learn to grasp the appropriate proportion and scale. "When it's time to strike", do not like this beggar as the desire to fill. Greed will only let us miss the best time to strike, and ultimately can only get nothing.

2, greed is the root cause of deception

Perhaps everyone was once cheated, when we were cheated, what are we doing? The heart secretly curses the cheat or hangs your head in remorse. As the old saying goes, "Eat a lesson, grow a wisdom", but there are always people who are still caught in the trap of being cheated even after eating a lot of "rips". Why? Because of our greedy human weakness, greed can be said to be the root cause of deception.

There was a landowner who was so treacherous and greedy that at the end of the year, he did not want to pay his servants who had served him for years, but he did not want to ruin his reputation and be called a "stingy" rich man. So he thought of a way, he said to the worker: "Tomorrow morning, you can run forward, as long as the sunset before the circle back, surrounded by all the land will be given to you."

The servant had been racking his brains to get the money back from the landlord, but there was no way, at this time, hearing the rich man say so, he was simply ecstatic, he thought: this time, I can finally get the money.

The next morning, he began to circle the land journey, he ran forward, found the land is vast, he hated the landlord's stinginess, but at the same time envied the landlord's rich life, he thought: as long as I try to circle some land, then, I can live a happy life like him.

He ran forward desperately, time passed, and he walked through more and more land, he could not contain his excitement, watching the sun gradually sinking, and he accelerated his pace. Later, he simply ran like a mad beast on the land. At the moment when the sun was sinking in the west, he finally returned to the same place after a big circle, but he also died of exhaustion as a result.

The landlord was very proud that his plan had finally succeeded, but in front of the crowd, he pretended to express his regret and shed crocodile tears.

In this story, we certainly hate the landlord's abomination, but we cannot help but deplore the servant. If the servant was not greedy, the landlord's cunning tricks would not have succeeded. If the servant had not been greedy, the landlord's cunning tricks would not have succeeded. Even the highest deceptions would seem very childish and ridiculous in front of a person who has abandoned his greed.

Therefore, we should change our greed, so that we can get rid of the fate of being cheated. Because with the support of greed, cheaters will reach the realm of "invincible". Moreover, even if there is no liar, the greed of human nature will also create their deception, and then fall into their own digging a good trap.

3, restrain greed is in the collection of wealth

Harvard University economics professor Danny Rodrick said: "Almost all the world's major religions have a commandment against greed. In real life, we can often hear people say with disdain and disdain, greed, greed, greed, greed, and other words to flog greed." But no matter how we flog greed, in this materialistic society, people's greed is always tempted by real life and stimulated up.

What we call greed is a person's strong desire to possess money and wealth. But if one's greed is too much, the less one can get. There was a man who happened to find a hundred-dollar bill on the ground. Because of this windfall, he always walked with his head down, hoping to have such luck again.

Over time, walking with his head down became a habit of his life. Some years later, he found more than 39,000 buttons and 40,000 needles, and only a few hundred dollars, but he became a severely hunched man.

Greed does not make us gain more wealth, it makes us lose more wealth. Just like the man in the story, after occasionally getting a hundred-dollar bill, he always wanted to get more. In the end, he sacrificed his healthy body. Only those who are contented will always be happy, and only those who are always optimistic will get twice the result with half the effort. So we should learn to restrain our greed, whether in work or life. We all know that greed can be a big taboo in investment and finance, and if a financial investor does not control his greed, what awaits him may eventually be a poor one.

So how exactly do we overcome greed?

Warren Buffet investment stocks have a characteristic, that is, always able to adhere to the anti "greed".

Warren Buffet in the first half of 2008, when the stock market rose, reduce holdings in Petrochemical stocks, many people say the "God of stocks is old", it is true, if Buffet can be late to reducing holdings, he can earn billions of dollars more. But later the fact that everyone had to be convinced: Warren Buffet's refusal to be greedy is still the right thing to do. And then think back to the heyday of the U.S. Internet bubble, Buffet is also away from greed to stay put, but repeatedly criticized, and with the Internet bubble ashes, Buffet regained the respect of people.

Whether in the stock market or in life e, we should learn to restrain their greed, only restrain their greed, we can be a temptation to think calmly in front of the problem, to make the right choice.

In short, desire will never be satisfied, constantly tempting us to chase material desires and money, but too much to chase the benefits will only make us lose the direction of life, therefore, do not be too greedy, there is insatiable greed will have more to lose than to gain, only the appropriate and happy people are truly wise.

People will understand only in mid-life, bad luck most of the bad in the "greed" on this issue, I sincerely hope you can understand early so that they understand early benefit!