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#437 - Daniel H. Pink - How To Overcome Regret

Modern Wisdom

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Is There a Scale to Rejoicing?

In his new book, David Walliams looks at why we have so many regrets. He says there are two kinds of regret: those for action and that for inaction. People can mitigate some of the pain by what he calls leasting them - a form of counterfactual thinking. The most common regrets were about not studying abroad in university or finding someone attractive.

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