“Mistakes are the portals of discovery” wrote the author James Joyce. I recently spoke with a young analyst in Private Equity who wanted to take a pragmatic look into regrets with one qualifier – “not the deathbed kind.” He wondered aloud, what were some common regrets of people ten or twenty years older? And did they deal with the regret? If so, was it with action, acceptance, or self-doubt? I polled a community and aggregated their 100+ responses. The answers spanned relationships (“I married the wrong person”), careers (“not placing riskier, asymmetric bets on myself,”) self-care (“failing to have the difficult conversations with myself”) and hobbies (“Not learning my nana’s language.”)
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I found the article referred to extremely worthwhile to read. A handful of themes kept repeating …..
This quote sums it up for me: “Studies of regret show that regret mostly arises from commitments avoided – untaken educational opportunities, missed love connections, and the inattention to children.”
Thanks for posting Mr. Blog.