Nir EyalSpeaker on Behavioral Science, NYT Bestselling Author, Former Stanford Lecturer

The best way to avoid regret #shorts

Name: The best way to avoid regret #shorts
Uploaded: 2024-07-08T19:18:39+00:00
Duration: 38 s
Channel: Nir Eyal
Description: Nir Eyal advises minimizing future regret by deliberately aligning how you spend your time and attention with your personal values, rather than using…

8 Jul 2024 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

0:38

Nir Eyal advises minimizing future regret by deliberately aligning how you spend your time and attention with your personal values, rather than using escape behaviors (drinking, smoking, excessive clicking/scrolling) to avoid hardship. He emphasizes acting in advance to do what you say you want to do.

Chapters

One of the things that you can do to minimize regret is to ensure that you spent your time and your attention the way you want, as opposed to the way someone else wanted to. It's not up to me to tell people how to spend their time. If what's meaningful to you and according to your values is being a professional video game player, awesome. What I want to help you do is to do what it is that you say you want to do in advance, as opposed to, ugh, life is tough right now. Let me find a way to escape it. Whether it's by drinking too much, smoking too much, clicking too much, scrolling too much. These are all mechanisms of escape that when we look back on our life, we regret.