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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Radiant Star and Animus, you both honor me with such kind remarks. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

I've always believed that adaption is the way through everything, if you can adapt you always have the utter most number of options available for your path.

True, adapting to every situation is the way. But that does not mean that you yourself have to adapt every time.
It rather means that your mind adapts to the situation. Your mind adapts, sees the best solution for the issue at hand and handles it with surgical precision.

knowing that your mind can solve each problem as it occurs, there is no more need to worry in advance about problems. You handle each event as it occurs.
That way it is futile to think about events before they happen, because the events do not exist yet. It is even more pointless to think about events after they have occurred , since they have passed and do not exist anymore.

The normal mind is full of mental noise and junk, unfocused like a small candle, shining little light on everything, leaving everything with little light.
The silent mind is dark, without light.
When an event occurs, the light emerges in the dark silence like a focused beam, illuminating the task at hand with such intensity that every aspect of it is clearly visible.
When the event passes the mind becomes silent again and calm. Undisturbed.

The ego has no way to exist in such a mind, it cannot cloud or darken such a focused beam, it is forgotten in the darkness beyond the light.

That is a mode of thinking i picked up from studying taoism, wonderful texts, wonderful philosophy.