Changing your opinion != Weakness
Senior Application Developer and Full Stack Engineer at Thoughtworks with almost a decade of experience working primarily as a Backend & DevOps Engineer. I've worked on Ruby & C# projects and am currently working on a Python one. I am an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and an Oracle Certified Cloud Infrastructure Architect at an Associate level. I also have reasonable experience working on GCP, primarily with Google Kubernetes Engine.
I'm also an aspiring public speaker who likes to give talks on soft skills and tech.
I also write blogs on various psychological aspects of work primarily to improve teamwork & interpersonal skills.
Changing your opinion when presented with evidence is a trait that defines your growth.
It's very easy for our opinions to be coloured by our biases. And it's impossible for human beings to not have biases. It's something that has been ingrained into our DNA and is useful when it comes to survival. But it really doesn't help us with growth in most of the modern world where our day-to-day existence isn't threatened.
So how does one overcome something like this?
By being aware that we all have biases and looking for evidence that goes against them. And by consciously acknowledging that our opinions were wrong and forming new ones. That is where growth lies, personally and professionally.
(This becomes difficult if you make your opinions as part of your identity but that's a topic for another day.)
