Confessions of a conceited mind

I have always wondered why people tend to take themselves too seriously. A colleague of mine had this devious habit of taking himself too seriously. There are a lot of things which can be said about such people , this particular colleague however always had the habit of denigrating other people and always used a vague terminology "Dealing" whenever people used to give their opinions. He was of the viewpoint that everything in the world is acheived through foul practices and used the Mantra Dealing whenever he used to CON people into accepting some of his suggestions which were never given for the benefit of Mankind or the Officekind in this case.Well this guy is well settled in life today, still the "Dealing Ghost" resides within him. Whenever he calls his conversation is always centered around who did what and how successful a particular homo sapien has become. Finally I had enough and told him to literally bugger off with his inane views.There is however one thing i have seen over time is it a common Delhi Trait to be a pompous exhibitionist.To most cerebral nuts I think it is yes.