"I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about……" — Kathryn Schulz
"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."
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Kathryn Schulz
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19 Quotes by Kathryn Schulz
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We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them.…
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Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know that we could do better.
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The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see…
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If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a…
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Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.
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The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.
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Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong
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To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is…
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The point isn’t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.
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If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we…
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And to me, if you really want to rediscover wonder, you need to step outside of that tiny, terrified space…
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