The ego is our shadow personality, the part of us that values immediate personal gratification over the holism between ourselves and others that benefits us more greatly in the long run.
(I'm not so sure: the personal gratification provided by constant feedback doesn't wither as one gets older).
Bond's famed smooth charm, and his willingness to use women for personal gratification have earned him his fair share of critics over the years.
Jeter has been ticking off offensive milestones with impressive regularity, but only after a handful of them — like reaching 3,000 hits — has he shown great personal gratification.
This part of him was bloodless and inhuman – Smiley in this role was the international mercenary of his trade, amoral and without motive beyond that of personal gratification.
As Hughes predicted, those remarks were taken the wrong way — as a sign that he cared more about personal gratification than team glory.
Perhaps the greatest personal gratification, he said, was felt by those who labored so hard on the tower before the money ran out.
"Koleen is doing this for her own personal gratification," said Brooke Buckley, a board member who grew up with Ms. Brooks.
He went on to say that he was "not knocking the #MeToo movement" but suggested some women were using it to play the victim for personal gratification.
A self-centered life, focused on personal gratification, aggrandizement and comfort, may or may not be good for the one living it.
Caught up in an age of great uncertainty, his defensive instinct is to simplify, leaving political intrigue to others while pursuing one final prerogative – his own personal gratification – before that too fades.
