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Confusing the volume of your opinions with the quality of your evidence.
means The habit of over-rating your own importance, abilities, or opinions — and showing it.
from Rooted in the Latin 'ego,' simply 'I.' The word emerged in the 1700s as a deliberately clinical coinage, first used to describe writers who couldn't stop inserting themselves into their own prose — an excessive, droning use of 'I.' From that narrow literary complaint it widened into its modern sense: any excessive self-regard, not just the grammatical kind.
- not narcissism
- narcissism needs admirers, egotism just needs a mirror
- root cause
- treats your own perspective as the control group
- tell
- answers every question with a story about itself
- cure rate
- low, because the patient grades its own progress