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🗓️ 3 October 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Regret sucks. Thinking back on things we should have done, or should never have done, can make us feel bad. But #noregrets isn't a philosophy for a happy and healthy life.
Regrets can be a great guide and can help us live a life that's true to our authentic selves. Illustrator Liz Fosslien learned to listen to her regrets after letting down her mom during a family crisis. While writer Daniel Pink compiled a global database of regrets to help unpick what common regrets tell us about our real values.
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Daniel Pink - The Power of Regret. How Looking Back Moves Us Forward
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0:00.0 | I'm going through a breakup right now and so that's there's regret in choosing to be together |
0:20.7 | and there's regret and also choosing to be a part. |
0:23.6 | We all replayed dumb things we did in the past. |
0:25.8 | I think a lot of my regrets stems from school work, every school year comes around and |
0:30.1 | I'm like, this year I'm going to do better and then I don't. |
0:33.1 | Or fret about the things we didn't do. |
0:35.3 | I was afraid to come out for a long time to my parents. |
0:37.9 | It was that fear of rejection regardless of whether they would have really rejected |
0:42.4 | me. |
0:43.4 | I was like hiding myself for two other people and that is something that I regret a lot. |
0:48.8 | From time to time, regret sets up shop in all our heads and makes us wonder about what |
0:53.3 | we could have, should have or would have done differently. |
0:56.2 | I'd done a lot of mistakes. |
0:57.7 | Like I spent a lot of money, I bade for a lot of people, I got used by a lot of people |
1:02.9 | and I did not know my worth. |
1:05.4 | Our feelings of regret mostly kind of suck. |
1:08.1 | We can experience it as a mild pain, a sort of throbbing emotional toothache, but sometimes |
1:13.2 | the anguish of regret reduces us to tears or saddles us with grief that lasts a lifetime. |
1:19.0 | I was in a relationship and it was very toxic. |
1:22.7 | I should have put my butt down a little bit earlier because now it kind of affects me to |
1:27.1 | this day and it's just like dang, I could have prevented all of these feelings from happening |
1:31.4 | if I just would have left it in the beginning. |
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