Regrets Are Inevitable. Start Learning From Them.

Now the good news here is that I also did another piece of research, a qualitative piece of research called The World Regret Survey, where I simply just asked people around the world to tell me one of their regrets, tell me one of their biggest regrets. ALISON BEARD: And there’s another theme that I saw in the book and I hear when you’re talking and that sort of action versus inaction, do people regret the bad things they do, or the mistakes they make more than the chances they didn’t take or vice versa. I even am a fan of something called a regret circle where you gather, five people, six people, and you go around, each person talks about one regret and the other five help them make sense of it and extract a lesson from it.