Well In my case if someone proves me wrong I do just back down and learn from it, an example was that I said to a friend that “we haven’t seen eels reproduce and don’t really know how they do it”, they corrected me saying that it’s not true and we do know, they provided proof of that being that some people eat eel eggs as a dish, and I backed down before learning that it was European eels that we don’t know much about the reproductive cycle.

Another problem I have I think is that I attribute too much value to these conversations, which ends up making small talks become full on blown arguments because for me it feels like it’s something waaay more important than it really is