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WotD: Pig-headed
Some people are very hard to deal with because they are pig-headed.
Students often ask if a word has a positive or negative meaning.
Well, let me turn the question around and ask if you’d like to have a pig’s head.
To be described as pig-headed means to be stupidly stubborn or refuse to change your ideas or behaviour.
It’s not a good thing to be.
To be described as pig-headed means to be stupidly stubborn or refuse to change your ideas or behaviour.
Strong-willed people and pig-headed people are both stubborn and refuse to give up on what they believe.
The difference is being strong-willed is considered an asset, while pig-headedness is often to your detriment.
I like to use Toyota as an example of being pig-headed.
For years, the head of Toyota refused to accept that electric cars would be a thing.
They were pig-headed in their belief that hybrid vehicles were the way to go because they had the best technology in that sphere.
Well, on October 30, Toyota announced they would release their first all-electric vehicle sometime in 2022.
It will be called the bZX4 electric SUV.
Now, it’s better to be late to the party than never to arrive at all, but Toyota’s pig-headedness has caused them to fall far behind their rivals at GM, Ford, BMW, Volkswagon etc.
So, what can we learn from Toyota?
It’s better to have an open mind and not dismiss new ideas or change outright as impractical without giving them some thought.
The Americans have an expression that goes, you can’t fight city hall.
Well, I’ll expand on that and say you can’t fight progress.
Technologies are invented, become helpful for a time and then are replaced by newer, better technologies.
That’s how the world progresses.
Don’t be pig-headed about it.
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