How important is it for you to be right? How have you behaved just to prove a point?
Are you someone who has a hard time admitting you’re wrong even when you know you are? Once you realize you’re wrong, do you continue to argue your point? Do you feel embarrassed or humiliated when proven wrong? Do you get angry if someone even dares to say you’re wrong? Do you become abusive either verbally or physically when told you are wrong? Is your reaction to being wrong an over-the-top, inappropriate reaction because of your need to look good by being right? Or, do you react to being wrong by wishing you could “crawl under the rug and disappear?”
An extreme example of the need to be right occurs when nations go to war to be right! How about cultures that annihilate each other because the other culture is wrong? If you would rather suffer any consequence to avoid being wrong or you’d rather start an altercation to prove you’re right, your need to look good in order to prove your worthiness is a glaring indication that you have no self-dependent esteem.
The fact of the matter is that no one knows everything about everything — no one.
