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Originally Posted by NotMVH
Someone who has self-worth and self-esteem in abundance is a very postive trait, they are only egotistical in the eyes of others. A very small amount may get you through life but does it get you what you want from life?
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I get pretty much everything I want in life without being egotistical. I just tend to avoid judging myself, avoiding the trap of requiring a high degree of self-esteem to feel good. If one avoids judging oneself or others, the ideas of self-worth or personal worth of others becomes an obsolete concept. Granted, it can be difficult to do, and I certainly have not been able to master it, but it can be done.
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The ego can not be augmented. It can grow and change but to say it can be augmented is to imply that everyone has one personality, unchanging unless "augmented" by that which enters their lives. You can't draw comparisons between hwo someone was and hwo someone is now, they are not linear in a sense you can define who they are at one point in time. It is a facet that is always growing and evolving through the existance of a person.
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Main Entry: 1aug·ment
Pronunciation: og-'ment
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French augmenter, from Late Latin augmentare, from Latin augmentum increase, from augEre to increase -- more at EKE
transitive senses
1 : to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense
You're saying that one's ego can not be made greater by outside influences? So in other words, you just said that if someone, for example, is in a romantic relationship, and they are cheated on and find out about it, their ego is not deflated? Or if someone wins an award, there isn't the possibility that their ego will become inflated (ie. augmented)? Augmentation does not deny the fact of dynamic personality. It in fact reinforces it.