Every person is egoistic. Each person has different ego material i.e. position in some office, money, beauty, power (physical or because of some post person is holding), degree from better college, belonging to a particular city, state or country etc..
Some call it as pride, I too agree there should be pride for ones stuff. But, when ones pride controls persons mind, it becomes ego.
I also had ego or maybe still have.. but I neglect on the basic ground that its a human nature to be egoistic.. One can always lose his/her ego, if he/she meets a person better than him/her.
I was lot of times overpowered by better people in various things in life. But, at the end of the day I learnt a lot from those guys. There ego may have retained. But I lost mine. (There is happiness on this loss)
