Why You Are Greedy

By Dr. Leland Benton

Consumerism - Why You Are Greedy is an epic selling book dealing with the personal human trait of greed. It speaks directly to the terms greedy, greed in consumerism, the meaning of greedy, the greedy method, the dictionary definition of greedy, greedy greedy, and the greedy approach. It delves into your mind and provides the reasons behind your action/behavior/conduct caused by selfishness and greed but it doesn’t leave you hanging. It also shows you how to change your life and behavioral patterns. This book is an adventure into your mind and what it reveals may be quite startling and painful at first. But once you learn what is behind your actions and conduct as well as others, the pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place. Written by one of the nation’s leading behavioral scientists, Dr. Leland Benton is the author of over two dozen self-help books and nonfiction behavioral science texts. He is a best-selling Amazon author with over 200-books published on Amazon alone. You need to read this book. It is the second book of Dr. Benton’s “Why” series of books.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dr. Leland Benton
• Release date: May 12, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310609718

Dr. Leland Benton

Dr. Leland Benton is Director of Applied Web Info, a holding company for ePubWealth.com, a leading ePublisher company based in Utah. With over 21,000 resellers in over 22-countries, ePubWealth.com is a leader in ePublishing, book promotion, and ebook marketing. As the creator and author of "The ePubWealth Program," Leland teaches up-and-coming authors the ins-and-outs of today's ePublishing world. He has assisted hundreds of authors make it big in the ePublishing world. Leland also created a series of external book promotion programs and teaches authors how to promote their books using external marketing sources. Leland is also the Managing Director of Applied Mind Sciences, the company's mind research unit and Chief Forensics Investigator for the company's ForensicsNation unit. He is active in privacy rights through the company's PrivacyNations unit and is an expert in survival planning and disaster relief through the company's SurvivalNations unit. Leland resides in Southern Utah.

Book preview

Introduction – Why We Selfishly Cling to Greed

There is an interesting article that I found in Wikipedia that I would like to share with you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greed

Greed is the inordinate desire to possess wealth, goods, or objects of abstract value with the intention to keep it for one's self, far beyond the dictates of basic survival and comfort. It is applied to a markedly high desire for and pursuit of wealth, status, and power.

As a secular psychological concept, greed is, similarly, an inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs. It is typically used to criticize those who seek excessive material wealth, although it may apply to the need to feel more excessively moral, social, or otherwise better than someone else.

Thomas Aquinas wrote Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things. In Dante's Purgatory , the avaricious penitents were bound and laid face down on the ground for having concentrated too much on earthly thoughts.

From Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary, greed means greedy for base gains. Gain itself is not a sin, but the gain of base things. Also, given to greed means literally, given to filth. Thus, a moral concern, not a subjective economic one for which there is no equal. A very wealthy man, for example, may be considered greedy in error, if such wealth was planned for some great achievement or building project.

Ivan Boesky famously defended greed in a May 18, 1986, commencement address at the UC Berkeley's School of Business Administration, in which he said, Greed is all right, by the way. I want you to know that. I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.  This speech inspired the 1987 film Wall Street, which features the famous line greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind.

Inspirations

Scavenging and hoarding of materials or objects, theft and robbery, especially by means of violence, trickery, or manipulation of authority are all actions that may be inspired by greed. Such misdeeds can include simony, where one profits from soliciting goods within the actual confines of a church. A well-known example of greed is the pirate Hendrick Lucifer, who fought for hours to acquire Cuban gold, becoming mortally wounded in the process. He died of his wounds hours after having transferred the booty to his ship.

References

Gabriel, Satya J (November 21, 2001). Oliver Stone's Wall Street and the Market for Corporate Control Economics in Popular Film (Mount Holyoke). Retrieved 2008-12-10

Ross, Brian (November 11, 2005). Greed on Wall Street ABC News Retrieved 2008-03-18

Dreamtheimpossible (September 14, 2011). Examples of greed      Retrieved October 4, 2011

The question of why has been a part of the conscience of man since the dawn of time.  It has caused us to seek answers, better solutions, invention, progress, increased knowledge and more. 

But more often than not, most of our questions of why now centers on personal behavioral traits and habits that perplex us and cause us consternation and regret. 

Candidly, most people have no idea why they do the things they do so in this second book in the Why series of books I am going to explain in detail why you are prone to be greedy.

The first book in this series is titled, Why You Do The Things You Do.  You need to read this book first. Since you bought this book please write to me [e-mail] and I will send you the PDF version to my first book as my gift to you.

The subsequent books in this series will deal with specific behavioral traits and target certain conditions that really are bothersome.  To wit:

Why You Do The Things You Do

Why You Are Greedy

Why You Are Immoral

Why You Are In Debt Up To Your Eyeballs

Why You Are Lonely

Why You Are Unhappy

Why You Fail In Relationships

Why You Get Angry

Why You Gossip About Others

Why You Have Bad Habits

Why You Lie, Cheat & Deceive

Why You Overeat

Why You Procrastinate

Why You Smoke

In all of the