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Facing failure, the actor has two options: reject or accept the situation. Rejection will protect his emotional equilibrium, acceptance will question it. Failure could give rise to a feeling of guilt which will embitter the person to the point where psychological success will be near impossible. But having made a habit of success is also a serious handicap: when luck is no longer on your side, the disapprenticeship of success can be that much more painful.
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See the book by Béatrice Majnoni d’Intignano, The Unemployment Factory, 1998, Plon, among others p. 14.
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Bourion, C. (2005). Situations of Failure: Disapprenticeship. In: Emotional Logic and Decision Making. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230508453_5
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