What is regret?

And this was all actually quite shocking to me, because prior to this moment, I had prided myself on having absolutely no regrets.

I had come for remorse.

What's you're biggest regret?

What's you're biggest regret?

Kathryn Schulz Don't regret regret

So in other words, regret requires two things.

It was the sorrow that's taken so long.

I've got no regrets about it.

Remorse captures feelings of guilt, regret, and sorrow.

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These are the classic conditions that create regret.

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly.

And that's just regret about tattoos.

It feels terrible. Regret feels awful.

Now within that framework, we can obviously experience regret about a lot of different things.

So the first consistent component of regret is basically denial.

The second characteristic component of regret is a sense of bewilderment.

And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true .

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And in fact, the more we have of either of these things the more agency and the more imagination with respect to a given regret, the more acute that regret will be.

And most of what we know about regret comes to us out of that domain.

How should one live in order not to feel regret when one is dying?

If you Google regret and tattoo, you will get 11.5 million hits.

And so I now went looking for remorse and threw truth under the bus.

And an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right of the Altar of Incense.

... My only regret is that I had to do too much off the court.

That there are fallen angels is not in the Quran, (Quran 2 30), and the Quran explicitly states that angels have no free will (Quran 16 50), but are servants of God, (Quran 21 26).

But it turns out that regret feels awful in four very specific and consistent ways.

My greatest regret in life will always be not to have applied for Brazilian citizenship at the time.

There is no God and no Buddha.

Because the inability to experience regret is actually one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.

The fourth component here is that regret is what psychologists call perseverative.

I want to suggest that there's three things that help us to make our peace with regret.

I asked him whether, considering the sacrifices he had to make, he ever had any regrets.

Yom Kippur ( , , or ), also known as Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the year for the Jewish people.

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I never saw any poor man, any black.

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There is no safety, no back support, no pads, no crash mats, no sand pits in the ground.

So if you look at the psychological literature, these are the four consistent defining components of regret.

So for instance, here's one of my favorite automatic generators of regret in modern life.

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful it ends all.

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