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The REGRET we might all be faced with in our older years...

31 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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James Laughlin breaks down two types of regret: things you did and things you didn't do. In your 20s they're roughly equal, but by your 50s you regret inaction three to four times more than action. The older you get, the more you wish you'd taken the chances you didn't.

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Regrets of action and regrets of inaction.

Roughly equal numbers of regrets of action and inaction.

Approximately 3 to 1 or 4 to 1 inaction regrets over action regrets.

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In the architecture of regret, there are two kinds of regret. There's regrets of action and regrets of inaction. I regret something I did, I regret something I didn't do. People in their 20s tended to have equal numbers of regrets of action and inaction. People in their 30s tended to have more inaction regrets than action regrets. People in their 40s tended to have a lot more inaction regrets over action. People in their 50s and beyond, 3 to 1, 4 to 1 inaction regrets over time. What people regret are what they didn't do, and that was a very. The age effect on that was massive.