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

Modern Wisdom

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The Anxiety Cost

There is something called an anxiety cost. The longer that you wait throughout your day until you do that thing, the more time of your day is spent ruminating and thinking about it. Action extinguishes the whatif questionand what if question can linger on us as aor essentially describing it as something of a cognitive tax. People who regret not working hard enough in school or not taking care of their health should take action to make sure they don't repeat those mistakes. And i thinke totally underestimated how much action helps us learn. That is, we sometimes have the sequence wrong. We think that the way you do stuff is you learn how to do it and then you do it. But

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