Reflecting on Regrets... I've Had a Few
Reflection of my feet. I love the story of the guy with the tattoo spelled "No Ragrets". I walk around thinking I don't have regrets, but after listening to a podcast with interviewee Daniel Pink... ya, I do. He talked about his book Power of Regret - How Looking Backward, Moves us Forward. His books are interesting and always backed with solid research. This time he collected 26,000 regrets from people from 130 countries. He discovered that people will talk about regrets, but most, like me, want to ignore them. This denial is likely due to believing that reflecting on regrets isn't good because "positivity is the only way" plus you've moved on. Others wallow in regret, which isn't good either. But he says we all have regrets -- the remorse or uneasy feeling about things we wish we had done differently. In Pink's study, most regrets were about things not done, rather than what was done. It might be as simple as wishing you'd been kinder, m...