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Pushkin. Hey, Happiness Lab listeners.

Welcome back to our Happiness Hot Take series, a whole season in which I call out the bad happiness advice that I hear so often on the internet.

In today's Happiness Hot Take, we're going back to the Happiness Lab archives to tackle

a happiness misconception that's so common it's even got

its own hashtag. Hashtag no regrets. The idea that we should stand by the bad decisions we make

with confidence that we should ignore all those pangs of remorse that don't feel so hot.

While today's throwback happiness hot take is that no regrets is no way to live. And you'll see why in this, in case you missed it, episode.

I hope you enjoy it.

I'm going through a breakup right now.

And so there's regret in choosing to be together, and there's regret and also choosing to be apart. We all replay dumb things we did in the past. I think a lot of my regret stems from, like, school work. Every school year comes around, and I'm like, this year I'm going to do better. And then, like, I don't. Or fret about the things we didn't do.

I was afraid to come out for a long time to my parents.

It was that fear of rejection, regardless of whether they would have really rejected me.

I was, like, hiding myself for two other people, and that is something that I regret a lot.

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