# bruised ego (hurt)

*Ordinarily means:* hurt pride after a setback or slight

A self model reporting that others read its reach as smaller than it reads it, a loss to its pride that moves none of its walls.

- Computed level: L16 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [self-model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-model.reflexive), [reach](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reach.action), [pride](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-pride.state), [report](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-report.information), [others](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-others.distinct-entities), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [small](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-small.size), [loss](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-loss.economic), [motion](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-motion.movement), [none](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-none.quantity), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end)

**Through:** The self-read and others' read of reach diverge downward; nothing it can do has changed, only its standing in others' models, and the report is of that gap.

**Novel properties:**
- a hurt with no wall moved
- pain located in the gap between two reads

## Examples
- Sports reporting often says a heavily favoured team that loses to an outsider leaves with a bruised ego rather than a lost season. *(sport)*

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