If you hit a brick wall, you can be dumb like me and keep hitting it until I can't get up or the wall collapses; or preferably find a way around it. The HSC is (debatably) the highest and toughest wall in your life, so if you get past it, it's mostly downhill from there. If you throw your towel at it and walk away, well, you'll find you can't throw towels at every subsequent wall in your life and you'll need to try to get past them, and there's no better wall to begin at than the HSC, and there's no better time than now.