Why?

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Proust
If things have become redundant and you’re searching for something new, but you’re not finding it, perhaps you are looking in the wrong areas, or with the wrong point of view. Take a situation you’re in now. Maybe it’s not going exactly the way you pictured, or the way you would have liked. You need a new outlook. If something is not making you happy, the hardest thing for a person to do is ask themselves, “why”? Why is this so hard for me? Why is this not working out?
The reason it’s so hard for us to ask such a simply put but difficult question is because this question provokes an answer - an answer that usually requires us to change a few things about ourselves. Doing the extra work to make things a bit different can make everything okay again. Sometimes it’s hard to admit defeat, and admit that you’re wrong. But, the thing is, if you admit that you are the person that’s wrong, but you make the extra moves to create a “right,” you’re already smarter and better-off than 95% of the other people out there. Admitting you’re wrong is not a weakness. It’s not a bad thing and it’s not a tragedy. The ones willing to say someone else was correct are the ones that will be considered more relatable, more humane, and more influential. They’re the strong ones, the intelligent ones.
They’re the people to look up to.
Admitting you may be incorrect does not make you a weak or bad person, it does not mean you have failed in any way, and does not mean that you are inadequate. Many people believe that being wrong means they've failed themselves or others. The most important thing to realize is that nothing you do ever fails, unless you look at is as just that. You have the opportunity to make whatever you want of the situation. You can look at your efforts as mistakes, or you can view them as honest tries that just didn't work out in your favor, and therefore you begin again. The fact of the matter is, it's an honest human thing that all of us go through.
Every one makes mistakes. The wonderful thing about mistakes though, is that almost all of them can be corrected with effort. Not many things in this world are permanent, and almost all actions can be undone in one way or another. Make mistakes, learn the correct way to do things and never repeat the mistakes again. Making mistakes could actually be looked at as a positive way to learn new things about situations, as well as yourself. It's all a part of living and experiencing every thing this world has to offer.
The absolute worst thing about being afraid to fail is that it leads you directly into this "failure" that you're so paranoid to confront. Because of your fear, you keep yourself from trying, and that alone keeps you from opportunities and the ability to expand who you are and you're knowledge of all situations.
Every successful person has made numerous decisions in their lives that could be looked at as one of two things, depending on your personality. They can be either a failure, or a learning experience. The successful ones never quit - they viewed their experiences as a change to learn something new, and they took that knowledge with them to conquer what it was that they set out to succeed in. What makes a well-rounded successful person is the ability to pick yourself up and try again. Don't ever admit defeat, because then you'll never fail.

Sources:
Ryan Allis, http://www.woopidoo.com/articles/allis/mistakes-article.htm