The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.

Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our own brilliance and exult in other people's errors is not very nice, although it is certainly very human.

Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.

without being sure of something, we can not begin to think about everything elses

If you Google 'regret and tattoo,' you will get 11.5 million hits.

wrongness always seems to come at us from left field - that is, from outside ourselves. But the reality could hardly be more different. Error is the ultimate inside job. Yes, the world can be profoundly confusing; and yes, other people can mislead or deceive you. In the end, though, nobody but you can choose to believe your own beliefs.

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know that we could do better.