Kevin Kelly: belief

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…Why is it good? Would it lead you to do too many things just so you don’t regret having missed out, but in fact a lot of it just amounts to nothing? Not necessarily. I think minimizing your regrets is a good thing, and most regrets that people have are from things that they — not from things that they did, but from things that they didn’t do. I’m trying to think of somebody who really regretted having done too much in their lives. I think I’ve not met anybody who’s ever told me that. I’ve met people who told me that they regretted not doing things. I think minimizing regret is still a good idea. Why is the ex post perspective better than the ex ante? If so many people at the end feel they haven’t done enough, at the time, they probably had pretty good reasons not to do it, right? If it’s such a common phenomenon. And at the end of your life it seems like it would have been easy to have done it, because you’re no longer faced with all the costs.…

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