More Happier: How Regret Can Make You Happier [Revisited]
Happier with Gretchen Rubin
Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project
4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
We discuss how regret and reflection can help us make better decisions in the future, and increase our happiness. Regret can be a hard thing to talk about. Many people who actually prefer to avoid using the word. By anticipating future regret, we can make better choices in the present, and by reflecting on past regret, we can think about how to do better moving forward.
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| 1:25.4 | Today we are revisiting a fascinating discussion that we had about regret. And Lizzo, |
| 1:31.9 | I'm so glad we're revisiting this one because I think regret is one of these emotions that can be |
| 1:37.1 | really hard to talk about, but it can be very, very valuable to think about. Yes. Many people actually don't want to use that word, |
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