Egocentricity Please respond to EACH of the following discussion topics and subm

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Egocentricity

Please respond to EACH of the following discussion topics and submit them to the discussion forum as a single post. Your initial post should be 75-150 words in length.Then, make at least two thoughtful responses to your fellow students’ posts. If you haven’t recently, please review the Rules of Discussion.

Take the Egocentricity Quiz:

http://home.earthlink.net/~bmgei/educate/docs/aperson/thinking/ego-quiz.htm

If you scored more than nine, read “If you are egocentric, what can you do?” at this website:

http://home.earthlink.net/~bmgei/educate/docs/aperson/thinking/kill-ego.htm

Pick one characteristic from the left column (Non-Egocentric) of the Egocentricity Quiz that describes your way of thinking. Describe a time when this trait helped you.

Pick one characteristic from the right column (Egocentric) of the Egocentricity Quiz that describes your way of thinking. Describe a time when has this trait hurt you.

Be sure you integrate your course readings on egocentricity and egocentric thinking within your work to show a good understanding of course concepts.

Explanation / Answer

Egocentricity- A person who is egocentric believes they are the center of attention. Having little or no regard for interests, beliefs, or attitudes other than one's own; self-centred: an egocentric person; egocentric demands upon the time and patience of others.

Non-ego centric characteristics- I don’t mind being wrong – being wrong is not a bad thing and it shows that we are working because mistakes always occur when someone continue to work rather than not to work.

Ego-centric characteristic- If I lose in argument, I feel bad inside- This characteristic is refer to a person who is ego centric and try to get the way to be the same. If they lose in argument they start to believe a real defeat rather than the reason behind it so they shows aggressiveness as well as lack of confidence.

The time when traits hurts- it can happen any time whenever condition happens, while both characteristics can show the behaviour changes in same ways.

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