The phrase "egocentric about" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means someone is excessively focused on themselves and their own needs and desires. Example: She is always egocentric about her accomplishments and never listens to others' opinions.
("Not to be egocentric about this, but I was right," he told reporters last year).
"I mean, the best chefs go to the greenmarket to see what's fresh, but we are so egocentric about design — it's always I want to make something.
I don't feel egocentric about it at all, but I feel as if I can see things in a certain way.
Considering he paints world leaders and royalty, it was a real honour, though I'm still not sure where to hang it – there's something a bit embarrassing and egocentric about having a picture of yourself on public display in your house.
But there is something so deliciously egocentric about the solo meal which I am afraid diminishes the anxieties about social fragmentation, alienation and all the other tosh which hand-wringing market researchers hope we will be channelling, having digested the news that 44 per cent of all meals are now taken alone.
"I think that what we have seen over these past four years, not to be egocentric about this, but that I was right," Holder said.
The ostensibly highbrow writer is quite full of himself, preoccupied with body functions and egocentric doubts about his daughter's aging lover.
The egocentric data about each partnership are easier for the respondent to provide and yield detailed datasets that are readily analyzed with recently developed GEE models that control for participant and partnership characteristics.
Visually determining what is reachable in peripersonal space requires information about the egocentric location of objects but also information about the possibilities of action with the body, which are context dependent.
Nor is it easy to speculate about how geographic languages affect areas of experience other than spatial orientation — whether they influence the speaker's sense of identity, for instance, or bring about a less-egocentric outlook on life.
What this plainly manifests is that the anthropomorphic conception of God, as defended by Cleanthes, reflects an egocentric outlook and delusions about the significance of human life in the universe.
