The Ego Cycle: The Way the Modern World Works is a book that includes the process that has been followed by humans for over 550 years. From the voyage of Columbus to the present, numerous events happened. Those incidents affected humanity in a lousy approach, whether the Western nations progressed. However, the other countries suffered a lot. In this book all those events are related to ego. The book begins with an overview which shows how humans developed. The five virtues of human character have been defined first and then how humans set different parameters all around the world been shown. We know humans are not treated equally because they developed a lot of macro and micro fences around themselves for the sake of society, religion, countries and so on. All those fences are the worst result of ego. Furthermore, this book is formatted in a cycle which starts with humans and ends with humans. Meanwhile, human follows a long journey of changes from where the ego shoots up. Ego is firmly holding the modern societies, and this book will introduce the journey of ego to the readers. Lastly, human are not mean to be egoistic. But the way they built up, they harmed Mother Nature, is completely devastating. Billions of people suffered and are still suffering because of the hardship that humans brought during the progression is shown in an order.