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Why Some People Will Never Admit That They’re Wrong
“Some people have such a fragile ego, such brittle self-esteem, such a weak ‘psychological constitution,’ that admitting they made a mistake or that they were wrong is fundamentally too threatening for their egos to tolerate. Accepting they were wrong, absorbing that reality, would be so psychologically shattering that their defense mechanisms do something remarkable to avoid doing so—they literally distort their perception of reality to make it (reality) less threatening. Their defense mechanisms protect their fragile ego by changing the very facts in their mind, so they are no longer wrong or culpable.”
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“An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.”
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
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“Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.”
— Bruce Lee
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“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
— Henry Ford
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“You’re not learning anything if you’re not making mistakes.”
— Charlie Munger
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A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.