'Instead of living life with a 'no regrets' motto, sitting and thinking about our regrets might be a much better way to avoid creating new ones,' writes vanessalobue
The idea behind new year’s resolutions is a great one—but unfortunately, research suggests that our resolutions don’t necessarily stick. One study suggests that about 77 percent of people break their new year’s resolutions in the very first month . Another set of researchers who followed people’s resolutions over time reported that 77 percent maintained their pledge for a week, but only 19 percent were still on track 2 years later .
But living life without regrets is nearly impossible; in fact, as Pink points out, regret is a normal and healthy part of the human experience. It comes from our ability to think about ourselves over the course of time , and to reflect on the decisions we’ve made, comparing them to other decisions we. This is a type of thinking called counterfactual reasoning, and while it’s hard for kids under the age of 6 or 7 , it’s something we can’t help but experience as adults.
According to Pink, we most commonly regret situations that we had control over, like when we should have stuck with something that we quit . We regret situations where we didn’t act but we could have, times when we’ve behaved like less than upstanding individuals, and instances where we could have kept up a connection with someone but failed to reach out.
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