what exactly is rigid thinking pattern?

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what does it mean?
i know it has to do with routine

but there are other issues with rigid thinking.

If one is only able to eat yellow, rather than green, foods, one exhibits rigid thinking.

If one is only interested in the Planet Jupiter, yet has no interest in the Planet Mars, one probably exhibits rigid thinking.

If one believes that females should be the ones who are sensitive, and males should not be sensitive, one exhibits rigid thinking.

Rigid thinking is "black and white" thinking. Rigid thinking is thinking in absolutes.

<--- When people try to force him to write in first person only he bursts into flames.

Oh I can help here, I'm an expert on this one, my wife can attest to that!!

My rigid thinking comes in the form of me always thinking that I'm right and there's no other possibility. I've come to realize that oftentimes you can be right or you can be kind, but you can't be both, so I've learned to "let it go". Even when I let it go, usually I still believe/know that I'm right and I'm just letting others have their way because I don't want to be called a jerk anymore.

I will say, I've always welcomed other people's arguments. My positions are well-reasoned and based on logic. If someone presents me with new facts or rationale, then I'm open to changing my mind. Actually, I don't view it as my choice... Logic leads me to an answer, I don't choose an answer, hence its rigid. But anyway, I can count on one hand how many times that's happened. Most people base their conclusions on emotions, and I'm not interested in hearing that.

When I was a teenager my mother and a few "professionals" said I should be interested in creating other kinds of artwork besides cartoons. One person even told me my refusal to develop other interests was like a baby never learning to walk because they think crawling is just fine. Um, learning to walk is kind of a necessity. Learning to do artwork you have no interest is not. I don't think anyone said, "Beethoven, your piano playing is good, but we think you should play the violin". Even if he wasn't deaf he probably would have ignored them.

I guess they thought I'd me more successful as an adult if I did realistic artwork instead of drawing cartoons all the time. Anyway my limited interests are what I guess a rigid thinking pattern might be.

Beethoven lost his hearing relatively late in life.

Example of rigid thinking would be if you do something the first time, you would want to do it that exact same way every time you do it. Nothing will get you to do it differently. I used to be rigid when I was a child so if you showed me how to do something, I would do it the exact same way, not any other way. I don't think I have rigid thinking anymore because I know there are so many ways to doing things but it drove my mom crazy. But yet I get irritated if anyone at work tries to tell me how to do my job differently when I do it my way. But unless it's my boss I am okay.