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What you seem to be describing is a kind of social "flow", where some say the ego disappears in the midst of it.

Google presented this:

Optimal Experience and Optimal Identity: A Multinational Study of the Associations Between Flow and Social Identity
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00067/full

which seems to argue to the contrary, that flow facilitates identity.  I suppose it might be counter-intuitive to some.  But it makes sense to me if we think of teamwork as a type of reinforcement learning, an entrainment to be a member of the team.

Whatever, though.  The question it raises to me is the (canonical?) difference between ego and identity.  Do any of you psych  people care to provide distinguishing definitions for a lazy dilettante like me?

On 4/11/19 12:07 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Among engineers, especially young ones, one way the ego-centric individual presents herself is via Not Invented Here (NIH).  She simply cannot imagine studying and using another work.    The tribe permits it so long as the tribe can be impermeable to criticism and that they can get her to associate the work with the group.   It doesn't matter if it is grossly wasteful of time or money.   Also NIH superficially makes the engineer appear more instrumental because she is solving a simpler problem than if she rationalized the state-of-the-art before beginning her venture.

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