Top 10 lessons learned from the book -The Power of Regret

Regrets usually connotes a negative phenomenon. However, the book “the power of regret” provides ten (10) lessons to be learnt from regrets

1) Regret is not dangerous or abnormal, a deviation from the steady path to happiness. It is healthy and universal, an integral part of being human.

2) Too much negative emotion, of course, is debilitating. But too little is also destructive.

3) Regret is better understood less as a thing and more as a process.

4) Our cognitive apparatus is designed, at least in part, to sustain us in the long term rather than balm us in the near term. We need the ability to regret our poor decisions-to feel bad about them-precisely so we can improve those decisions in the future.

5) When feeling is for thinking, and thinking is for doing, regret is for making us better.

6) The lesson of closed doors is to do better next time. The lesson of open doors is to do something now.

7) We regret foregone opportunities more often than unfulfilled obligations.

8) If we know what we truly regret, we know what we truly value.

9) Regret makes us human. Regret makes us better.

10) Regret makes me human. Regret makes me better. Regret gives me hope.