You are egoistic, I am and we all are. How many times you have been struck with this discernible feeling of jealousy, just a will to rule the things around or making it large? Well there is nothing wrong in being so, in fact it has been the sole reason behind existence world around us is been created.
Sigmund Freud, one of the masters of suspicion along with Karl Marx and Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche divided our mind into three parts Id, ego and super ego. Each part being responsible for something different. The Id is equivalent to the devil sitting on ones shoulder- impulsive, child like portion of the physhe; Super-ego is the angel portion- critical and moralizing and Ego is one conscience- organized and realistic. Well, this is one of the theory sprouting out of those various efforts to read our great mind.
The idea I am stating here is not how the mind can studied or How you an I behave, the idea we are so often we are preached with the statements of not feeding our ego, now allowing it to be on the driving seat and yet you have been asked to do better than your peers in your professional and personal life. There has been comparisons since childhood not just with your life but in sports, politics. They are countless. The very Theory of Evolution can been moulded around this desire to be better than fellow beings, yes there is something like survival of fittest but then there was no need to apply it among the human race.
Look around, your parents have asked you top the class just to enjoy their feeling of supremacy among the other parents following the same paradigm ( not because their child is successful but they have been successful in getting him do what they wished); people hovering around to get the hottest girl beside them (cloning our own animal planet jungle mating stories); the geek next to you trying to win the race of ego etc. These were just one of those such examples you see any field of human accomplishments they are driven by this sense of achieving the desired ego. The greatest financial crashes, fall of empires, rise of tyrannies and many other are just driven by the desire of few ego's to rule others. The basic fundamentals of business will ultimately flow down this simple theory of capitalizing on people's desire to fulfill their ego jar. The juggernaut advent of Facebook is a prime example how a need in society of make their presence felt in this social arena.
Well the debate is Ego has been a key player in the structuring of the life around and will continue play its part. The greatest discoveries, greatest rises and cataclysmic falls was just someone's ego trying to score on other want to do the same. Well it just the fire with in human mind, when in control will serve you and else destroy you.
