WHAT HAVE YOU TRAINED YOUR MIND TO ENJOY?

WHAT HAVE YOU TRAINED YOUR MIND TO ENJOY? PLEASURE IS
A MINDSET Part Two of SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT—BUT HOW?
What if human greed does not begin with money? What if it begins much
earlier—with pleasure? A repeated pleasure becomes familiar. Familiarity
becomes habit. Habit begins creating desire. Desire begins asking for more.
And when the human mind loses the ability to say enough, desire can turn
into greed. In WHAT HAVE YOU TRAINED YOUR MIND TO ENJOY?,
Dr. Abhishek Gilara takes his environmental philosophy one step deeper.
After asking humanity to stop human greed, he now asks: What creates that
greed in the first place? His answer begins inside the human mind.
Why does one person enjoy exercise while another avoids it? Why does one person find pleasure in prayer, learning, work,
discipline and silence, while another searches for constant shopping, stimulation, attention and consumption? Because
pleasure itself can be trained. And if pleasure can be trained, perhaps it can also be retrained. Through personal reflections,
business experience, spiritual thought, behavioural insights and environmental reasoning, Dr. Gilara explores how society can
redirect human aspiration before endless desire becomes endless consumption. He argues that the future requires more than
cleaner factories, renewable energy and recycling. It also requires: Children taught the difference between need, want and
greed. Parents who demonstrate responsible pleasure. Schools that teach self-control along with academic achievement. Businesses
that create value without manufacturing insecurity. Celebrities who make health, knowledge and responsibility aspirational.
Media that celebrates contribution alongside consumption. A culture that makes goodness prestigious. A society that
respects wealth but respects responsible wealth even more. And above all, a human being who can possess beautiful things
without becoming possessed by the need for more. This is not a book against prosperity. It is not against ambition. It is not
against luxury. It is not against business. It is a book about direction. Become greedy— but for knowledge. For health. For
discipline. For contribution. For good karma. For wisdom. For excellence. For spiritual growth. For creating a better world.
Because perhaps humanity does not need to stop wanting. Perhaps it needs to learn what is worth wanting. The Earth does not
need miserable human beings. It needs wiser human beings. Human beings who can enjoy deeply without consuming endlessly.
Human beings capable of saying: I can prosper without wasting. I can grow without becoming greedy. I can enjoy beauty
without becoming its slave. I can have enough and still become more— more wise, more healthy, more disciplined, more
useful and more human. If we can retrain what humanity calls pleasure, perhaps we can change what humanity desires. If we
change desire, we can change consumption. And if we change consumption, perhaps we can change the future of the Earth.