Stoic #1: Use Prospective Retrospection to Minimize Future Regret
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Stoic #1: Use Prospective Retrospection to Minimize Future Regret
Psychological time is illustrated by our desire to live in the past or future in a way that does not help us but harms us.
Dan Koe • The Art of Focus: Find Meaning, Reinvent Yourself and Create Your Ideal Future
Watch this video in full. It's only two minutes, and it's what helped me move on.
It boils down to this:
What choices can you make today that minimize the regret you'll feel as an 80-year-old looking back on your life? When you minimize future regret, you sleep well knowing you're maximizing fulfillment.
Julian Shapiro • Highlights 🍍 So Confused About Life
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. —Søren Kierkegaard, philosopher