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What Are Your Biggest Regrets?
Is there something around success addiction, work addiction that you often see for people in their 40s? I will say that when we asked people in our study, when they were in their 80s, to look back and we said, what are your biggest regrets? Many of them said, I wish I hadn't devoted so much time to work and achievement. I wish I had spent more time with the people I care about. There was a developmental theorist, Bernice Newgarten, who had a theory about being on time or off time. Her sense was that developmentally, we care a lot about what our community around us considers normal for the age that we are at.