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The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
Our cognitive apparatus is designed, at least in part, to sustain us in the long term rather than balm us in the near term.
from The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel H. Pink
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the card players in the second group willingly initiated the unpleasant process of experiencing regret “because they needed preparative information to help them perform better,” the researchers wrote. “Participants who did not expect to play again needed no such information and, instead, wanted only to feel good about their current performance.”
from The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel H. Pink
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The only emotion mentioned more often than regret was love.[18]
from The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel H. Pink
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In fact, other research has found that people who thought counterfactually about pivotal moments in their life experienced greater meaning than people who thought explicitly about the meaning of those events.
from The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel H. Pink
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If Only and At Least offered a faster route to meaning than the direct path of pondering meaning itself.[16]
from The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel H. Pink
juarry added 6mo ago
the stomach-churning feeling that the present would be better
from The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel H. Pink
juarry added 6mo ago
Regret is a marker of a healthy, maturing mind. It is so fundamental to our development and so critical to proper functioning that, in adults, its absence can signal a grave problem.
from The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel H. Pink
juarry added 6mo ago
If thinking is for doing, feeling can help us think.[27]
from The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel H. Pink
juarry added 6mo ago
This process begins with two abilities—two unique capacities of our minds. We can visit the past and the future in our heads.
from The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel H. Pink
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