Stubbornness
Being labelled stubborn is unfashionable. It’s not cool.
However stubbornness is a misnomer. Stubbornness is not an undesirable trait, it is the common trait.
Everyone is stubborn.
Instead of labelling someone stubborn, what we mean to say is that someone’s way thinking and way of doing things are not aligned to social norms.
If someone adheres to his/her routine of drinking tea and having toasts in the morning, this person is just like everyone one else. You wouldn’t label him/her stubborn although he/she won’t change his/her mind.
However if someone’s actions and/opinions divert from social norms and won’t change his/her mind about it. We label this person stubborn. We shouldn’t do that. That person is not more stubborn than any one of us.
Rather that person is perversely opinionated.
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