Changing your mind in front of everyone isn’t weakness. It shows people you care more about right than about winning.

Holding a position after you have stopped believing it is a cost you pay to protect an image, and most people can tell. Reversing in public does the opposite: it shows you will follow the facts rather than defend yourself, which is exactly the quality people need in whoever is deciding things. It reads as weakness for about ten seconds and as trustworthiness for a long time after.

If you are currently defending something you have doubts about, say so this week. Name what changed your mind, not just that it changed. Then move, because the credibility comes from acting on it.