Psychology says the deepest regrets in later life aren’t things people did wrong – they’re things people did right by every external measure that quietly hollowed out the parts of their life that actually mattered, because the cruelest regrets are the ones that spent decades disguised as virtues before revealing what they actually cost
· lachlan brown
AI Briefing
- Regrets are often about things done right, not wrong.
- These 'virtues' can quietly hollow out meaningful parts of life.
- Decades of seemingly positive choices can hide deeper costs.
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