Being coachable is trusting that someone on the sideline can see a part of the game you can’t.

You are inside your own performance, which means there are angles you structurally cannot see. Someone watching from outside has less information about your intentions and more about your effect, and that trade is exactly what makes their view useful. Taking correction is less about humility than about accepting a limit on your own vantage point.

Ask one person you respect what you should change, and then sit with the answer before defending anything. Try the advice for a couple of weeks rather than debating it. If it does not work you have lost little, and you will have learned something about the adviser too.