ego
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Dan Levy on the cast of “Big Mistakes”: “In the casting process, I’m always very aware of social compatibility. I don’t really love an ego on set.”
From Los Angeles Times
In some regards this narrator, a husband and father, is Mr. Lerner’s most mature alter ego, but he often seems like the same schlemiel as the feckless grad student in “Leaving the Atocha Station.”
When she was a young violinist, Anna said, her mother taught her that to keep improving, she’d have to set her ego aside and accept mistakes as part of the bargain.
From Los Angeles Times
Impulsivity and ego, after all, are the enemies of sound financial management.
From MarketWatch
“Many of the people that are at the absolute pinnacle of the economics profession … have such big egos that they look down at other people like, ‘I’m smarter than you,’” he said.
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