Article: The New Year’s Cocktail: Regret With a Dash of Bitters
From the New York Times: The New Year’s Cocktail: Regret With a Dash of Bitters. An appropriate article to start the year, with many folks waking up with hangovers or a few extra holiday pounds and holiday bills.
Over the past decade and a half, psychologists have studied how regrets — large and small, recent and distant — affect people’s mental well-being. They have shown, convincingly though not surprisingly, that ruminating on paths not taken is an emotionally corrosive exercise. The common wisdom about regret — that what hurts the most is not what you did but what you didn’t do — also appears to be true, at least in the long run.
We all have regrets, but the article mentions that some people have better ways of dealing with them than others.
And since it’s New Years, I’ll have a post about goals and such, but this has been a busy couple of weeks so I’m taking a few extra days to think about them.