{"id":9424,"date":"2025-06-03T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/785273021524066304-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:13:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:13:26","slug":"785273021524066304-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/785273021524066304-2\/","title":{"rendered":"785273021524066304"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf=\"{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/the-squeaky-wheel\/201811\/why-some-people-will-never-admit-that-theyre-wrong\",\"display_url\":\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/the-squeaky-wheel\/201811\/why-some-people-will-never-admit-that-theyre-wrong\",\"title\":\"Why Some People Will Never Admit That They're Wrong\",\"description\":\"Psychological rigidity is not a sign of strength.\",\"site_name\":\"Psychology Today\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"d002162b4cda8745146a551e56448b91:8c737c3f2270db29-9c\",\"type\":\"image\/jpeg\",\"width\":1528,\"height\":800}]}\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/the-squeaky-wheel\/201811\/why-some-people-will-never-admit-that-theyre-wrong\" target=\"_blank\">Why Some People Will Never Admit That They\u2019re Wrong<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people have such a fragile ego, such brittle self-esteem, such a weak \u2018psychological constitution,\u2019 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\u2014they literally distort their perception of reality to make it (reality) less threatening. 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