Title: 5 Signs of a Rigid Personality and How to Deal with People Who Have It - Learning Mind
Headings: 5 Signs of a Rigid Personality and How to Deal with People Who Have It
5 Signs of a Rigid Personality and How to Deal with People Who Have It
Here are some of the signs that you are encountering a person with a rigid personality, and how to deal with this type of people.
OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder)
Playing the blame game
Unattainable expectations
Arguing black is white
Unnecessary confrontation
References:
Lauren Edwards-Fowle, M.Sc., B.Sc.
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Content: It is always challenging to reason with a rigid personality, but being able to diffuse their stress levels may bring the situation back to a manageable atmosphere. Unattainable expectations
Having a rigid personality is not just hard for the people around them. It is difficult for the person themselves. They may have set criteria and expectations for results or outcomes that are simply not achievable. In this case, they will likely be irrationally upset and disheartened if their expectations are not met. The best thing to do when dealing with a rigid personality is to try and manage expectations calmly and rationally. They may have been told something which they perceive as gospel truth, so being able to alter their mind-set to accept an alternative will take some real mental effort. Try discussing what the potential outcomes are, or would have been, both good and bad. Being able to see that there were far more disastrous possibilities that did not come to pass should shed a little hindsight on the situation and avoid it becoming a bigger problem than it needs to be. Arguing black is white
For a person with a rigid personality, once they have decided something is a fact, they will struggle to change their thinking no matter how stark the information may be to the contrary.