I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets.
The point isn’t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them. - Kathryn Schulz
The point isn’t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.
- Kathryn Schulz
The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't. - Kathryn Schulz
The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.
If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy. - Kathryn Schulz
If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.
And to me, if you really want to rediscover wonder, you need to step outside of that tiny, terrified space of rightness and look around at each other… - Kathryn Schulz
And to me, if you really want to rediscover wonder, you need to step outside of that tiny, terrified space of rightness and look around at each other…
Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong - Kathryn Schulz
Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong
If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when t… - Kathryn Schulz
If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when t…
We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really … - Kathryn Schulz
We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really …
Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intell… - Kathryn Schulz
Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intell…
To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right migh… - Kathryn Schulz
To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right migh…
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