The Type of Person Who Does Not Learn From His Mistakes

This person believes that he is better than others, he doesn’t take advice from other people, and he doesn’t trust them, too. Aside from that, he also believes that he doesn’t make any mistakes, and so he doesn’t learn from these said mistakes. These traits are true for a narcissistic person.

In refusing to acknowledge that they have made a mistake, narcissists fail to learn from those mistakes, a recent study from Oregon State University – Cascades found.
The mental process of analyzing past actions to see what one should have done differently is called “should counterfactual thinking.” Counterfactual thinking is the mental process of imagining a different outcome or scenario from what actually occurred.
All of us engage in some level of self-protective thinking, said study author Satoris Howes, a researcher at OSU-Cascades with the OSU College of Business. We tend to attribute success to our own efforts, but blame our failures on outside forces — while often blaming other people’s failure on their own deficiencies.
“But narcissists do this way more because they think they’re better than others,” Howes said.

Learn more about narcissists, and how to handle them in the workplace, over at Neuroscience News.

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