Being able to admit your mistakes and flaws and then confidently moving on conveys the healthiest ego you could have.
But what if our reasoning is shot through, from start to finish, with emotional considerations, such as the desire to feel a sense of group belonging, or an unwillingness to admit your previous judgments were flawed?
It's far more important to admit to your flaws than to be in denial in order to save face and look tough.
The westerns of Anthony Mann ("Winchester 73," "Bend of the River," "The Far Country," "The Man From Laramie") were about admitting and facing your flaws, being brave and socially responsible, and beating the guys who were only worse than you, not simply bad.
They couldn't admit to flaws, couldn't admit to errors, couldn't admit to messing things up, to not being sure.
To Zuckerman, what's special about Jews is how unspecial they are — how fallible, how capable of ugliness, how human; and how unwilling they are to admit these flaws.
Certainly the approach has been to admit no flaws, to speak only of irrefutable improvement in the last year, to set their sights on that level of annihilating perfection that characterised five of Bayern's previous six matches in this competition.
It takes a brave individual to admit those flaws aloud, but once they are out in the open you can focus on correcting them.
To publicly admit the flaws in a work is to imply the recognition of private flaws, buried deep.
No one likes to admit their flaws, especially when they are trying to impress a prospective employer.
