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 If you don’t get the kind of information failure provides,

you’ll end up with unrealistic expectations for yourself,

explains a psychologist. You could wind up in a position

where failure, which has gathered under cover of

darkness, reveals itself all at once.

 We should hope, then, for exposure to failure, early

and often. The sociologist Glen Elder proposed that

there is a sensitive period for growth late teens through

early 30s during which failures are most beneficial.

(10대 후반에서 30대 초반에 이르기까지의 성장에 민감한 시

기가 있는데 그 기간 동안은 실패가 대단히 유익하다고 하였

다) Such a pattern seems to promote the trait

sometimes called equanimity. (중략) The image is of

a rider easy in the saddle. Nothing can so surprise her

either for good or ill that she’ll be knocked off.

 One way to help keep life’s slings and arrows from

knocking you off course is to ensure your life is

multidimensional, says Stephen Berglas, a California

psychologist and personal coach. That way, a setback

in any one area won’t mean in your mind that you’re

a failure categorically. Call it spreading your risk

across your emotional portfolio or adding another

leg to the furniture for balance, says Berglas.

* equanimity: 마음의 평정

출처: 2014학년도 9평B 영어 42번 문항

수능에 적용하면 실패 (ex. 대학 불합격) 가 대단히 유익

하다고 해석 가능할 듯... 실패 후 다시 도전하시는 분들

모두 화이팅입니다 !!