Levels of Ekotism

Now you take a person who wants to believe that he is talented at something and give him evidence to sustain that belief. The result is often a player who thinks he is much more skillful than he is.

Obviously, people do achieve high levels of skill and some of them have large egos. One concept they share is that they realized, perhaps upon reflection, that they needed to work on their game.

This means that they had to subvert their egotism based upon logical input that the game itself does not provide. Maybe they kept track of the number of mistakes that they made. Maybe they came to grasps with what their results should have been if they were highly skilled.

People without much egotism do not typically have to go through this step, as they are able to evaluate their skill much more objectively. Their self-esteem is not dependent upon how well they play the game. Their truth is not the interpretation of reality that brings them the most comfort.

Without the distorted filter of great egoism, they are more ready to see results realistically. Egotistical people tend only to see that which reinforces their belief that they are great. Even if they intellectually know they have made errors, mild forms of denial or displacement allow them to diminish those errors in their minds until the errors did not occur to them.

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the interpretation of reality

An egotistical person