A short spoken segment from a YouTube video ("terrible advice on how to live your life") in which the speaker critiques the common American prescription to always be positive and never dwell on regrets. The speaker contrasts this with Irish attitudes and argues that advising people to ignore regrets and never look back is bad advice.
What do you do with your regrets? And here I think we have a big problem where we have some people who just say, you ignore your regrets, who take in this overly sunny, bizarrely American view that the way to lead a good life is to be positive all the time and never be negative. To which I know that Irish folks don't have that view. Opposite. Yeah. But Americans have told the world, essentially have told the world the way to be the way to have a good life is to be positive all the time and never be negative and to always look forward and never look back. And that's terrible advice.
