How To Balance Your Greed Gene With Your Giving Gene: An Addict's Perspective
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My parents have always taught me to give and God with give back to me in return . When you do a good deed , good comes back to you. I won’t expect it from others but God sends it to me through people .
I realized that money is not everything , it’s temporary happiness , when you have what u want , you always want more
i just read an article in pshychology today about the altruistic gene, came out awhile ago about how some people are instinctual in caring more about others than themselves.
They think it's because at the beginning of evolution parents would get eaten by other mammals and someone had to take care of the kids.
But it's a good gene to have.
Wow.
I love this.
I just got charged up....
The biggest mistake people make is not being themselves, and trying to copy someone else.
I think I've been really guilty of making this mistake and immediately I read that line. Something pricked me.
Thanks a bunch for this message.
It's really timely...
anyone in this world must have greed,
but the level is different depending on the person who controls it.
but for the current rulers and milyoners, greed is a common thing we see, and I consider it now human nature. @stellabelle
From everything you said, it seems as though, everybody undergoes a similar journey on steem. the fear of the whole thing stopping because it sounds too good to be true but then, that journey is limited to those who have something to offer coupled with the tenacious hunger to make money out of it. The truth is money is a big motivation for what people do here. it's only wrong when money is the only motivation.
As for greed, I think greed is in everyone of us, even GIVING is GREED and this is the reason why:
I hope that one day, I will grow as much as you have and therefore be able to do some of
my fantasies like you talked about in your previous post.
The age old truth - slow and steady wins the race, eventually the audience who wants to find your brilliant work will find it but you also have to go helpo them to find you - so you have to save them from having to steadily wade their way through a lot of the fluff on top of the pile
edit: did i mention, I was blown away by your brilliant work? Glad to find your blog.
@stellabelle - True. Greed did drive me - not for making money but for a desire to make my vote count more. Somehow, voting a few pennies did not feel right. The sudden rise in steem price changed that and I am happy. I am trying to upvote as much good content as possible in whatever limited time I am able to devote. Hope it helps in some way.
Thanks for discussing this intriguing topic.
Regards,
@vm2904
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You just proved you are the very definition of honest.
Also, I think most people would be so much better off if only they could do what you did here, so masterfully.
By disclosing your truth - which is the selfish part- you disarmed me, totally. I adored you as I read your words because it is so easy to lie but much harder to be honest like you have been. By revealing your truth - the tiny selfish part- you make us (your readers) instantly love you - because humans are humans and we all fight the greedy urges that truly control our actions.
By looking your greed squarely in the face and revealing it to us-your awestricken audience- you make us vulnerable WITH you. It takes major GUTS to not wear your best mask. It really does. I am utterly in love with your style. Aren’t we all? Obviously, you lead a massive group of whimsical women and beautiful mermaids but also... the men are trailing behind you in awe because you have the courage to speak of what is truly at the center of your intention.
Then to really make it a show stopper - you give of yourself - to sort of mitigate the pressure your feel from your own selfish center- and guess what. That is exactly the same reason ANYONE gives freely- and you are one of the few people who are honest enough to admit it or able enough to even SEE this shortcoming most humans have.
You are gifted in that sincere approach to things. It’s a beautiful thing to witness, woman.✨It’s just beautiful. ✨
Um.... the end.
‼️Oh wait! I actually was hoping to sneak a little link in here to my latest 2 posts - because I really want you to read about my tragic shit and feel a pang of empathy for my life. I was going to lie, but in the spirit of your style, here is the truth. I hope you will read about my deceased husband and my little guy and be so moved by my story the powers that be will inspire you to use your magical selfish/selflessness on me. Thats truth. I was about to disguise it in a sweet lie, but I am sure you can taste the bitter flavors or non-truth from a mile away. My honesty in this last paragraph is frightening me. What have you done to the “me” that usually pretends so welll?
I love how you change me into the real me. It freaks me out a little. You do that. 🤟🏻👩🏻💻🦄🦋🍀
Please read my last 2 posts- even though I won’t be linking them here (I am still undecided on whether or not it’s rude to include links like that, and I am lazy. I hope you will click my name and check out my latest posts. It would literally make my entire month to have you stop by to see my latest. Pretty please with a pickle on top?) 🥒
With so much love and admiration for your honesty and true beauty, Lori Brown
Ok. The end. ❤️ You are going to click my name now right? 🙈
wow. i need to turn you into a little genie in my pocket and bring you out when i feel like shit.
I learned from the master, James Altucher, as he was my mentor for a few years.
He taught me how to spill my guts publicly. I would not be as honest if i had never found his blog.
we always have goals in life, sometimes we make a lot of ambition I always want to dig more, I always want to dig more...
but that's why life conditions are very difficult @stallabelle ☺
Greed also known as Avarice is an inordinate or insatiable longing for unneeded excess, especially for excess wealth, status, power, or food.
It is natural to be greedy,infact almost everyone i know is greedy even babies.
Greed is the other of the day.The rich keep getting richer and the poor becoming poorer.
Ironically in most cases the poor keep helping the rich get richer while the rich dont care.
Its survival of the fittest.
Thanks stellabella,hope to have a more balanced society.