I had drunk our great ...

I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets.
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 Kathryn Schulz

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Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing.
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The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.
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If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.
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Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.
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The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.
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