Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.
Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.