"I could have been a contender / somebody" - On The Waterfront
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efHzGxEzDQA
While risk management guides business decisions, our lives are better served by regret management. Both risk and regret signal. You manage both by seeing their role. You’ll see regret skews heavily to things you don’t do—as those provide no lessons. Such inaction-based remorse smolders, easily ignored, while it emits noxious gases. Later, given enough oxygen, it grows, engulfs, and is hard to extinguish. While regret from wrong action burns like a signal flare. It draws our attention to a mistake, then falls and fades away.
You’ll minimize regret by really living. Your professors may call this "lived experiences".
- ****“Commencing amid Crisis” (discussed near end) Essays & Errors: Show Work in Progress/Public
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The only way I’ll ever get back all those years I spent working on a time machine is finally finishing the f-ing job, jumping in to go back and warn my younger self against wasting all those years.
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