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Ego - Gets in the way

Precursor, I'm writing this with my phone at a stealership  while my "covered" oil gets changed. So grammar might be worse than normal! Egos are a necessary concept in capitalism, you must have a reasonable amount of Ego in order to believe in yourself to promote your services in trade for dollars. If we had no egos you would be quick to admitting there are plenty of people that can do exactly what you do better, faster, cheaper, fill in the blank. However our ego gives us the sales pitch necessary to grow, to chalange and to believe in ourselves that we indeed are the best with a fill in the blank with a qualifier. I had a coworker just the other day say that she is the best Rep the company has to offer, yet quantitatively I had statistics that proved her incorrect. Her response was simple and egotistical, an excuse followed by a qualifier. She believed due to ego that she indeed is the best Rep, and by her qualifiying statement because it was a immeasurable statement ...