As I reference in Rising Strong, I think one of the most powerful lines about regret comes from George Saunders’s 2013 commencement address at Syracuse University. Saunders talked about how when he was a child, a young girl was teased at his school and, although he didn’t tease her and even defended her a little, he still thought about it. He said: So here’s something I know to be true, although it’s a little corny, and I don’t quite know what to do with it: What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and
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