A New Earth- Eckhart Tolle

I am re-reading A New Earth, and to my astonishment, I'm really getting it this time. (When the student is ready... the teacher appears...)

Anyhow, the story of the duck resonated with me. Isn't it soooo true? Shaking off the negative (and all those emotions that well up inside) and simply moving on with your life. Not carrying around all that negativity and replaying it over and over again. Making the people around you miserable as well. It's all ego stuff. I am becoming so much aware of Ego centered behaviors and the unhappy consequences of them. It is difficult to beat the ego back at times, but it all starts with awareness. Some people never get past even that stage, the awareness that you, inside, are not these negative thoughts. You are the person who is thinking them again and again. And you can change your thoughts.

Can you look past "being right" (making someone else wrong) and choose something different instead? Like getting on with the next moment in your life?