From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "Jim D"  wrote in message news:2019021811292531283-Not@ThisAddresscom...   
      
   > my cousin was on the phone giving me examples of why people won't do this   
   > or that in work environments.  I typed them as a way of remembering what   
   > he said.   
      
   > These would all seem to apply ... but in situations where the person   
   > holding things up was at no risk if the process or task failed.   
      
   It's probably that either they don't feel responsible, or that they wouldn't   
   be held responsible.   
      
   > That applied to the musicians I've been working with.  It's all a weekend   
   > pastime to them. If it fails, they don't care.  And from that attitude   
   > comes their resistance to doing what it takes to succeed.   
      
   That one's a bit different, because in that case, they're SHIRKING Their   
   Responsibility!   
      
   > saw some quote this morning related , something like "  ego will do   
   > whatever it takes to make sure success isn't achieved ".  I'll try and   
   > find it again.   
      
   Not ego by itself, but rather an ego Problem!   
      
   > correct line was, " the EGO makes sure never to find what it seeks ".  not   
   > sure where that line comes from   
      
   JimD   
      
   To my understanding, ego is a very good thing. It's a sense of self, of   
   one's own unique individuality that delineates, almost like a sort of "force   
   field", one person from another lest confusion of personhood, to say the   
   very least, would result without it.   
      
   This is the very reason why Socialism, or anything that even points in that   
   direction will Always be a total failure - because it Denies and therefore   
   Disrespects the very existence of the self and in so doing, canNot be   
   successfully applied to any Individual creature!   
      
   But a person with an ego *problem* is someone whose behavior, or more   
   accurately misbehavior, indicates, usually through the process of Subjective   
   rationalization, messages such as 'My uniqueness and individuality is   
   *better* than yours', or simply such things as 'I'm 'better' 'qualified'   
   than you to be in charge, to be the 'rock star', prima donna etc., because   
   I'm 'better' than you'. THAT's an ego problem.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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