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Egocentric thinking is the failure to distinguish between oneself and other people who surround you. All the more particularly, it is the failure to unwind subjective constructions from the main reality; a failure to comprehend or expect any viewpoint other than their own (Simon, Egocentric Thinking, 15 Apr 2009). Egocentric thinkers regularly consider things that they need in light of the fact that that is what's critical to them. They barely ever consider what another person may need or desire, on the grounds that they append such little significance to that. Since he supposes the whole world rotates around him, he frequently believes that others ought to think basically about what he wants and what intrigues him (Paul, 2011). Highly skilled egocentric thought can be produced in every human situation, from situations involving the rights and needs of thoughts of people to simple, everyday interactions between two people (II, April 1, 1997). For example, I and my wife Audrey constantly visit the video store to rent movies. Inevitably because I want to rent an action-packed movie while Audrey wants to rent love story. Though my wife is often willing to set her choices aside and go along with my interests, I am always never willing to go along with hers. I rationalize my capacity to that of my wife, telling her that my movie selections are better because they are full of thrilling action, because love stories are always slow moving and boring, because my movie choices are award winners, because “no one likes to watch movies that drives one to cry, blah blah blah”. My egocentrism hides the whole truth even from my own wife. As you can notice am unable to grasp my own wife’s perception. I cannot see how my self-centeredness adversely affects my wife. In so far as my own thoughts work to achieve my own desires, and am therefore unable to detect any wrongdoing in my reasoning, I am egocentrically successful that is what matters (Simon, The Continum of Character Disturbance , 2015). Period. Successful egocentric thinking takes place when the thinker has come to face the problem at hand and is motivated to accomplish his/her objective (Simon, Egocentric Thinking, 15 Apr 2009). For example, many people in authority be either in government or any form of organization such as lawyers, business people, politicians and many others are frequently gifted and motivated in what they need and have capacity to justify unethical behavior with extraordinary complexity (Paul, 2011). Although the means they use to acquire what they need may be unlawful, they will do everything to get what they want as long as it benefits themselves.
Unsuccessful egocentric thinking takes place when the thinker has come to face the problem of not influencing and get their way from the others they are trying to deny and get what they want. The others being influenced feel manipulated and decline not to get along with the thinker’s way of thinking (Paul, 2011). An example of this is when my son refused his carrots at dinner one night after having eye examination earlier that day because he needed glasses. He felt that all the instances before his eye examination I tricked him into eating his vegetables, especially his carrots, seeing as how I told him how they will help his eyes and vision.
Going back to my case, I am able to manipulate my wife into going along with my movie choices. But then one day she decides that she can no longer follow my desire into liking action movies. She begins to feel that I really don’t care about her. The more she thinks about me, the more she feels that I really care about my personal interests and a number of things. She goes along into now acting against my own desires and chooses to rent her love story movies. At this point, I can say that my egocentrism is not working on my side. I am now egocentrically unsuccessful (Simon, The Continum of Character Disturbance , 2015).

References
II, J. S. (April 1, 1997). Socio - Egocentrism.
Paul, R. a. (2011). Critical Thinking:Tools for taking charge of your learning and your life.
Simon, D. (15 Apr 2009). Egocentric Thinking.
Simon, D. (2015). The Continum of Character Disturbance .