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The case for regret
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Are Human Beings Generous or Selfish?
There is an interesting anecdote in your book about how a bronze metalist tend to be more satisfied than silver metalist. How much does regret, or maybe some other emotion like anxiety, have to do with our expectations in life? That's a good point. So let mey ask you a question. Are humans generous or selfish? Yes, exactly. All right. So do human beings experience regret or gratitude? Yes, that's my point. And so we need to have in the way we think about behaviour an ourselves is recognize that imade at some level. I contain multitudes. It's fun showing that on the metal codiums, gold metalists are totally pumped. Not
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