"I refuse to be part of the crowd" is easy to say.... much harder to do but still, aknowledging your weakness is easier than admitting defeat... weaknesses we work on,defeat is a fail and means a repeat.
Although most of us learn through failure, the more we come to understand how insignificant a single failure is the the greater spectrum of life, the easier it is to move on.
To learn is to live and to live is to learn....