" Getting ready is that point in the day when the rivalry between the two needs is likely to peak, because we are making transition from being at home and pleasing ourselves (ego) to going out and having to conform to a series of norms an conventions (superego). We become less ego and more superego with each button we fasten "

― Robert Rowland Smith , Breakfast with Socrates: An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day