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Wisdom story: What can you learn about greed from chocolate
Once a student in a high school asked his teacher, “What is Greed?” The teacher suggested the following experiment to the student, “In order for me to provide the best possible answer to your question, I advise you to go through the chocolate factory next to our school and pick the one chocolate you like the most. In this experiment, there is only one rule. You can pick any chocolate no matter the taste, size or value, but as you walk through the factory, you can never turn back to get the chocolate you passed. You can only pick the chocolate as you go forward.”
The student accepted the experiment and went to the chocolate factory. As he walked through the factory he saw the most delicious and exotic chocolates he before never even though of. As he went through the factory he decided to not pick the chocolate at the very start as he would most probably find better ones much later. He didn’t want to close his “door of opportunity” too soon.
So he kept walking and searching for the biggest and most delicious looking piece of chocolate. With every step, he took, with every sniff he made he hardly could keep calm as the aroma of chocolate was so strong. Also, he couldn’t believe how big the pieces were getting. With every room, he came into there were bigger and more delicious looking pieces of chocolate. So with that in…