Possibly you have an acquaintance with whom engaging in any debate is tedious due to their inability to “give their arm up”. Sometimes, we find people who do not give in to their arguments or have great difficulty accepting any decision made by others. These facts may be due to their cognitive rigidity. Cognitive rigidity can be defined as the inability that a person may have to modify their beliefs, their behavior or their actions. This lack of flexibility in your mind can cause the person “alterations in the regulation of their own behavior” as they say from the specialized Cognifit portal. On the contrary, when a person has the facility to modify their actions to adapt to a new environment, we are talking about a person with great cognitive flexibility.
One of the biggest drawbacks of cognitive rigidity is the inability to adapt to new situations, causing your life goals to seem unattainable. Not having the ability to acclimatize to changes with some flexibility, irritability or discomfort may appear.
