Do you know people who have a hard time admitting they were wrong?

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I was on a river rafting trip several decades ago with my then girlfriend Lisa and her family. The guide and I were cooking up a rattlesnake we had killed. It was in our campsite, and we could have just shooed it off, but we were worried it would return to snuggle with one of us warm-blooded people in our sleeping bag. Anyway, as the guide and I (he and I were both in our 20s at the time) were cooking up dinner (we had steaks and corn--not just rattlesnake), I looked toward the Southeast. "Look! Orion!" He said, "No, Orion is a Winter constellation. That's Scorpius." I researched what he had said when I got home and learned that he was right. Of course, I never got to see him again to thank him. Years later, I tried to pass what I had learned on to someone here In the Bay Area. He made exactly the same mistake I had made decades before as we were sipping a beer on my balcony. I tried to explain to him that Orion and Scorpius were 180 degrees opposed to each other in the night sky, but he would not have it. "I took a Ptolemy class," he said. "I know these things." It took him more than a year to admit that he had been mistaken. With politics in the news these days, we see lots of people who have a hard time admitting they were wrong. Both @Porwest and I were wrong about the dogs and cats thing in Springfield Ohio. We (OK, I'll speak for myself: *I*) thought it was just a goofy ploy by Republicans to distract Democrats. But it turned out Trump believed it too, and now he's talking about it, as if it were true, in his speeches. So Jim and I area eating crow (heh), while Springfield worries that Trump might actually visit there. I was about to write abut my misunderstanding of the Freudian term, "Thanatos," but I just realized that I was right abut a part that I thought I had been wrong about. Sigh. I have to do more research. And I'm not being facetious. I have more learnin' to do. Do you know people who have a hard time admitting they were wrong about something? Do you think that tendency inhibits learning?