When i was a sophomore in college, i came home for vacation and borrowed two bottles of red wine from my father's basement. My father took me through security to fly back; they found the two bottles of wine and took them out. Seeing my father's look of disappointment, seeing that i'd basically stolen two bottles ofwine from him, just crushed me. And i sat there and i cried on the aerplane, and i wrote this sort of like, teery note to my parents, telling them how ashamed i was. So do the pain of that. But i have to say, to be critical to myself, had the two bottle of wine not been discovered, i would not
“Embedded in songs, emblazoned on skin, and embraced by sages, the anti-regret philosophy is so self-evidently true that it’s more often asserted than argued.” So writes Daniel Pink in his new book, “The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward.” There’s just one problem, he adds. The “no regrets” philosophy? It’s hogwash. Regrets may churn our stomachs, but they also improve our decisions and strengthen our values. They’re a photographic negative of the good life.
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