You 2.0: Regrets, I Have a Few...

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🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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We all have regrets. By some estimates, regret is one of the most common emotions we experience in our daily lives. In the final episode of our You 2.0 series, we bring you a favorite interview with Amy Summerville, the former head of the Regret Lab at Miami University in Ohio. After years of studying this emotion, she says she's learned something that may seem counterintuitive: regret doesn't always have to be a negative force in our lives. If you like our work, please consider supporting it! See how you can help at support.hiddenbrain.org. And to learn more about human behavior and ideas that can improve your life, subscribe to our newsletter at news.hiddenbrain.org.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanta.
0:04.3	Whether or not you believe in them, you probably have ghosts that haunt you.
0:09.9	Not something sinister, but something you just can't get rid of.
0:15.2	These ghosts are relentless and they will make you rehash details from your past,
0:20.6	over and over again.
0:30.6	I was calling about, I was saying it, we're going to have had a few, so I won't list all of them.
0:34.6	My boyfriend of a year and I end our relationship.
0:36.6	It's just looking back and thinking that I could have done better and I didn't.
0:39.8	All these things keep popping in my head of small things, maybe something I should have said differently
0:44.6	or something I should have done differently in a particular conversation or on a particular event.
0:48.6	It makes me cringe with regret and shame.
0:52.1	I haven't a fair, everyone knows that it's not a secret, but it's regret.
0:56.4	My great regret is leaving Woodstock on Saturday morning.
1:00.6	I was an evangelical Christian at the time and I remember my friends asking me if I thought they were going to hell.
1:09.2	And I told them that I thought they would go to hell if they did not become Christian.
1:15.2	And it's something that's bothered me for the last 10 years.
1:18.4	I am experiencing regrets on sometimes admitted by minute basis.
1:23.9	And it is the biggest regret of my life, honestly.
1:27.1	I hope you have a great rest of your day.
1:34.3	Today on Hidden Brain, we're going to conclude our annual YouTube.O series with a look at regrets.
1:41.1	Why are tendency to dwell on the past may actually be helping us to prepare for the future.
1:58.4	Amy Somerville is a senior research scientist at Cairo's research.
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