Egocentrism

Egocentrism is not something that just goes away after adolescence. Every experience you have, or have had, is processed by you in a novel manner. So in some ways, your thoughts, ideas, misconceptions, beliefs, relationships, do revolve around your interpretations of the world. You cannot detach yourself from this reality.

However, what you can do is balance your own views, with sincere relationships with others. Be observant! Take into account peoples' reactions to your actions. I am not advocating for conforming to the norm. People need to understand that cost-benefit analyses of their behavior should incorporate the effects of the externalities generated from their actions. I will not go so far to say that the butterfly effect is real, but it is easy to see that your actions can definitely cause a ripple effect at least two to three degrees away from yourself. 

I think that in order to generate shared or blended value, we need to think about everything we do at least three degrees of separation away from ourselves.

For example, a person chooses to smoke indoors. That causes harm to others one degree out. 

A company pays people minimum wage. That is legal and fine one degree out, but at the second degree, if that person has a kid to take care of (maybe more), suddenly, we see that minimum wage simply isn't enough.

Three degrees! World bank gives money to the government of a developing country. Let's assume the government is not corrupt and spends the money on health and education. But the teachers and healthcare workers have not been properly trained.

What is clear is that analysis at one degree of separation is not enough, and can cause a great deal of damage to the future of humanity.