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The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward

Book by Daniel H. Pink · 5 quotes · Regret, Self Help, Self Improvement

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“Because [self-esteem] offers indiscriminate affirmation unconnected to genuine accomplishment, self-esteem can foster narcissism, diminish empathy, and stoke aggression. It can also promote bias toward one's own group and prejudice toward other groups. Because self-esteem is comparative, to assess myself favorably, I often must denigrate others. The most powerful and promising alternative [to self-esteem] is called "self-compassion". Self-compassion encourages us to take the middle road in handling negative emotions - not suppressing them, but not exaggerating or over identifying with them either. Self-compassion delivers the benefits of self-esteem without its drawbacks.”

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“If the precise definition [of regret] feels elusive, the reason is revealing: regret is better understood less as a thing and more as a process.”

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“Every damn thing you do in life can pay off for you.”

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“Feeling is for thinking. Don't dodge emotions. Don't wallow in them either. Confront them. Use them as a catalyst for future behavior. If thinking is for doing, feeling can help us think.”

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“Our goal should not be to always minimize regret. Our goal should be to optimize it.”

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