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The Pooch · 08-13-04

"The whole course of human development can be viewed as a continuing decline in egocentrism." - Harverd Developmental Psychologist Howrd Gardner
I rather like that statement.

Who would you say is actually happier or has the greater ability of finding true happiness, a bleeding heart, boy scout, good doer, philanthropist, altruist or a pompous, egocentic, self-absorbed, vainglorious, narcissist?

I personly find that there is a kind of feel-good-ness that comes from making and having a postive impact in some ones life. Yet in the same there is something that makes me wish I could be as vain to just care about my own well being, and as long as that was solved the world "to me" is perfict. Would any one say that the narcissist is missing out? Or how about that the bleeding heart good doer is really being shorthanded?

*a slice of pie is always nice*

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