Daniel Pink
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That's good.
Those 2% mess things up for everybody else.
So more regrets are if only I'd done the right thing.
So one thing, as I mentioned before, is to treat yourself with kindness rather than contempt.
Treat yourself with compassion.
You are not the only person who has a moral regret.
Every single human being has a moral regret.
It doesn't mean that you're a shameful, terrible person.
It means that you might have done a bad thing.
And so it's also a kind of a moment in your life, a scene in your life, rather than the full measure of your life.
So there are different things that you can do.
If you've hurt somebody, right?
If you have cheated somebody, if you have harmed somebody in a way, go make amends.
First of all, you can talk about your regret.
And the other thing, especially as we get older, we can instruct other people who are younger how to live better than we did.
Okay, so I look at it as three stages.
Inward, outward, forward.
Inward, outward, forward.
Right.
So inward.