There are two types of stubbornness:

1. An unwillingness to change when change is necessarily.
   
2. An unwillingness to change when change is detrimental.
   

Too often we accuse each other of the former and not recognize the latter.

When we call people stubborn, what we really mean is, I know what’s best, but you’re too hard-headed to realize it. But the person whom we think is hard-headed might actually be the one who gets it and we might be the one too hard-headed to realize it.