Ego, What is Ego? Options

As a person, I have a big ego. I want to win at all costs. I want this and that. I simply want to have it my way. I want the cake and the icing too. I am spoiled and always want to take more than I give back. Is this an example of an Ego?

My ego boost me to gain riches, health, love and many other conquests.
My ego also make new enemies, destroy and corrupt various aspects of me and my environment consciously and subconsciously.

What is EGO? What does this word means?
How do you define it? How do you keep it your slave instead of it enslaving you?
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Thats a dangerous statement, and one that could do you under in the future if you truly believe it. I know many people that follow a moral code like that and destroy their selves and ended up in depressions or worse because of it.

Not really.

Always place your own health and important need above others.

Also other peoples happiness does not depend on your actions alone...

Are you sending all your money to poor country's to the extent that you don't have any money left to buy yourself food, clothing...

So I should place my own health above someone else's? I should be allowed to punch someone to prevent them punching me? That's arrogant!
And of course other people's happiness doesn't depend on my actions alone. The point is, you can make people happy by being less selfish.
And no, but I give people money when they ask, even if I've never met them before.

Again, i do not agree. Willpower and selfishness have nothing to do with each other. If it is your will do do a certain tasks, it is your willpower that pulls you trough it. If you use your will to counter selfishness then you do so by willpower. If i use my will to achieve certain selfish results then that is also willpower.

That is what I was saying. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) It's just earlier you were saying that the ego, as described above that post, was partially willpower.

Trying to avoid selfishness is foolish, and I don't like this kind of black and white thinking. I am sure you are plenty selfish, or you would be dead already.

It would be hard not to be - it is ingrained into our society. Called consumerism.

Actually this kind of reasoning is futile. The world is a complex place, and the mind has to deal with each situation in a different way. At some times acting selfish may be the right thing to do, and on other times being selfish is wrong.
Sometimes you have to listen to the advise of the ego, other times your ego is out of control.

It all depends on each specific situation. Thats what i meant by being free, and inventing yourself. If you have to measure each situation to some sort of moral code, then you are not wise at all...

How so? A moral code gives you some guidelines to follow. It allows one to hold a stable personality rather than doing the same thing differently each time. Everyone has a moral code - it's just a part of their nature (it's built into your personality). If you didn't, you wouldn't see anything wrong with killing people.
Sure you deal with different situations differently, but all a moral code is some lines that you feel you shouldn't cross.