Habits, ego and change

As you are walking down a one way street, you hear loud voices ahead of you, they get louder as you move towards them.
After a while, you see two cars blocking the traffic in a tight street. One car is facing one way, and the other car is facing the opposite way.
From a logical standpoint, the car with no traffic behind it could easily back up, and let the other car pass. A wave of hand would be exchanged, and the whole "issue" would be solved in a very short time.
Our attachment to our ego, makes us rigid in our thinking, it overrides our reasoning mind and causes us to make wrong choices in our attempt to feed its bottomless appetite.

Ego hijacks our reasoning and directs it towards achieving its senseless goals.
Ego gratification is a habit that we build over time.
Bypassing our ego could be done through small incremental changes that could be implemented over long periods of time.
A good example would be a dislike for oranges. Our feelings towards them are not logical. We just don’t like their color, their shape, or their acidic taste.
One day, out of boredom, we decide to try one, and to our surprise, it does not taste that bad.
Eating oranges in front of our close friends, would cause some eyebrows to rise, and it will confirm that we were wrong about our senseless aversion towards them, thus slighting our ego.
So we trick it, by eating fruits related to oranges like grapefruits, or we start ordering fruit salads that would have slices of oranges mixed in with other fruits.
These options don't exactly represent oranges, but as they are closely linked to them, they help us achieve a couple of goals.
We move one step closer to making eating oranges "normal" for us without scathing our ego and appearing fickle infront of our friends .