he let's his ego run amok dictate his motivations? That's a non-rhetorical question by the

or because it's based on my ego and feeling like I need to impress people.

You can call them "ego boosters"

ego boosters or you're making jokes

I knew I didn’t know. I never came into this industry with an ego, ever in my life.

is bigger than your ego.

Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity.

No ego, right?

Going back to the no ego thing, too.

They don't need to fix what isn't broken, lacking empathy, Narcissists feel no issues in feeding off others for ego maintenance, they enjoy it.

Giving the narcissist a fresh ego feeding supply.

I don't always like to have the betrayed for their healing and their process to deal with that first because I think they're dealing with the shock and the ego injury and there's so much trauma happening.

And for men, the ego gets in the way most often than not, like the fixer or like you were saying, no, we're good.

If it weren't for a disguised roshi joining the brackets, Goku may have taken home the gold, but he didn't stew in defeat for long and soon found himself putting up his dukes again against the nefarious red ribbon army despite throwing generals, psychics and missionaries his way, the organization couldn't keep up with this tailed youngster in the end, their goal to gather the dragon balls only earned them a severely bruised ego fritz Thanks to some magical shenanigans.

Second best is like ego, that's the second best and someone is the eggplant, eggplant.