Stoic #1: Use Prospective Retrospection to Minimize Future Regret
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Stoic #1: Use Prospective Retrospection to Minimize Future Regret
- The future will never provide the reassurance you seek from it. As the ancient Greek and Roman Stoics understood, much of our suffering arises from attempting to control what is not in our control. And the main thing we try but fail to control – the seasoned worriers among us, anyway – is the future.
from Oliver Burkeman's Last Column: The Eight Secrets to a (Fairly) Fulfilled Life by theguardian.com
sari added
- Perhaps if one is pessimistic about the future, it is that much more important to embrace Future Self-Continuity, however paradoxically, because acting with the interests of the future in mind may the best way to make a future worth living in.
from Edge.org by Edge
Jay Matthews added
Watch this video in full. It's only two minutes, and it's what helped me move on.
It boils down to this:
What choices can you make today that minimize the regret you'll feel as an 80-year-old looking back on your life? When you minimize future regret, you sleep well knowing you're maximizing fulfillment.
from Highlights 🍍 So Confused About Life by Julian Shapiro
Mickey Patel added