That’s why it’s interesting to describe another category according to Albert Bandura’s scheme. This is the inefficiency of a human as his/her own agent. Indeed, this scheme and many other psychological strategies point at efficiency, which is very fashionable in many learning spheres of humans for so called effectance motivation. On the other hand, apart from success there is such a thing as luck. Not everything depends on us and any strategy even the best-known one doesn’t guarantee the result even close to one hundred percent. Fighting alcoholism is a good example thereof. We spoke before that there’s no cure – and there can’t be any – to guarantee absolute deliverance. Even more approximate results are obviously achieved by numerous methods of influencing by word. If we talk about the human as such, in many cases, his or her numerous attempts to give up alcohol end in failure. And what’s left is to make them again and again courageously. Psychologically, what’s a failure?
That’s why it’s interesting to describe another category according to Albert Bandura’s scheme. This is the inefficiency of a human as his/her own agent. Indeed, this scheme and many other psychological strategies point at efficiency, which is very fashionable in many learning spheres of humans for so called effectance motivation. On the other hand, apart from success there is such a thing as luck. Not everything depends on us and any strategy even the best-known one doesn’t guarantee the result even close to one hundred percent. Fighting alcoholism is a good example thereof. We spoke before that there’s no cure – and there can’t be any – to guarantee absolute deliverance. Even more approximate results are obviously achieved by numerous methods of influencing by word. If we talk about the human as such, in many cases, his or her numerous attempts to give up alcohol end in failure. And what’s left is to make them again and again courageously. Psychologically, what’s a failure? We speak constantly about a struggle inside a person between short-term and long-term aims. The moment of failure is a temporary chaos when the main aim (we called it a dream conditionally) not only loses its power, but also brings its follower into discredit. This lays a foundation for what we can call a line of premature decisions. Emotions take place as well as those biochemical processes that support the disappointment itself. Even if a person is resolute not to drink there’s always a temptation to break the taboo this person has enforced on himself or herself. On the other hand, even according to the theory of probability the failure has a significant chance to become a reality, even when every psychological standard suggests the person is most effective. Therefore, before speaking further about the scheme of the human agency interaction with the world we shall take the efficiency as a variable, not a constant. In other words, we can use other people’s experience to act better, but it will be a mere anticipation and an option of the life's journey.