The Right Lessons

I don’t find regret to be particularly useful, though it’s sometimes difficult to avoid.

Regret can play a role in productive reassessment, triggering the reflex to look back and consider. I find that its knee-jerk utility often stops there, however, leaving me in a reflective-limbo; worrying over something that went wrong, but not doing anything useful with that information.

I have several habits meant to help close this deficit, but the most straightforward and boring one tends to be the...