What is it?

Question

That feeds your ego?

Answer 1

Attention, compliments and wearing a tiara.

Answer 2

We are essentially faceless… we can't see our face or our eyes, and I think this affects us during those significant development years before we can hold a mirror and recognize our image.

Ego then defines itself as what it isn't. I'm not this table, nor that tree, nor that dog. I am not you. Sure, we have likes and preferences and these lead to labeling ourselves in a better way of identifying ourselves, but on a fundamental level, we think of ourselves as what we aren't.

But this is conflict. In fact, the ego feeds itself with conflicts. The more confrontations, the more of an identifiable individual one is. This isn't healthy… its a diet of junk food, but this is the daily bread of the immature, developing ego. Some egos never mature enough to eat broccoli.

But the worst attrocity comes when some people contemplate the vastness of the world and come up with the concept of an even bigger ego… a super-ego, just like your ego but without limits. Omniscience, omnipotent, omni-egotistical.

Perhaps this Über-ego doesn't define itself by what it is not and doesn't feed on aggresive contention

Answer 3

Umm...when people say to me...you are right....and leaving a good impression to thers.

O yes not to forget and compliments...are feeding my ego :)

Answer 4

Flattery. But I know how to distinguish it from true comment.
It is good to feed your Ego from time to time.... as long as you KNOW that this is you Ego playing games and not your heart and soul...

Answer 5

Same thing that feeds everyone's ego -praise - compliments - someone else's adoration........

Answer 6

Success.

Answer 7

Appreciation.

Answer 8

My ego is malnourished

Answer 9

hmm, nothing really, if you mean ego in a bad way... I'm not really good at accepting compliments

Answer 10

Knowing that I help others, peoples warm smiles.