Stoic #1: Use Prospective Retrospection to Minimize Future Regret
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Stoic #1: Use Prospective Retrospection to Minimize Future Regret
it’s important to understand that the pull into the past and future comes not only from the impulse to avoid suffering but also from a positive yearning—the deep desire to know where we are in our life journey.
Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
with the future when it does eventually arrive. As the celebrated Stoic emperor Marcus Aurelius reassures readers of his Meditations: ‘Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.’
Oliver Burkeman • Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
For years, happiness was always something for my future self to enjoy.
James Clear • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
The past wasn’t as good as you remember. The present isn’t as bad as you think. The future will be better than you anticipate.
Morgan Housel • A Message From the Past
There’s a Russian saying about nostalgia: “The past is more unpredictable than the future.”
It’s so common for people’s memories about a time to become disconnected from how they actually felt at the time.
When thinking about our own lives, we don’t remember how we actually felt in the past; We remember how we think we should have felt, given what we
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