The Effect of COVID on Regret

The experiment is to write down the three things in your life that you most regret. By my age, the big three are too painful to contemplate. We're a very extraordinary mammal because we're vastly more prosocial than pretty well any other mammal. But when the psychologist come to add up these regrets and they look in that bucket, it's virtually empty. It would be full of regrets about decisions that led to material consequences like loss of money or failure to acquire things that led to wealth. If only I hadn't missed the opportunity to buy Bitcoin. If only, if only in a world where regrets like that.