KaleKrishna wrote: "I like that, Ashu, permit me to use the words in my attempt to impress others on borrowed lines." By all means, please use them. That's fine. From experience, I have noticed that most Nepali friends use the English word "ego" a lot when they have to describe people they don't like or don't understand, and then, they go on to make zero distinction between "ego" and "self-confidence". As such, in most settings, a Nepali's display of self-confidence could easily be mistaken and misinterpreted as, well, a display of ego. Dictionary.com makes this distinction: EGO: An exaggerated sense of self-importance; conceit. SELF-CONFIDENCE: belief in yourself and your abilities Surely, we all can do with LESS of wgo, and MORE of self-confidence. oohi ashu