Why “No Regrets” Is Bad Advice

This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. Pushkin. Happiness Lab listeners, welcome back to our Happiness Hot Take series. A whole season in which I call out the bad happiness advice that I hear so often on the internet.

In today's happiness hot take, we're going back to the Happiness Lab archives to tackle a happiness misconception that's so common, it's even got its own hashtag. Hashtag no regrets. The idea that we should stand by the bad decisions we make with confidence, that we should ignore all those pangs of remorse that don't feel so hot. Well, today's throwback happiness hot take is that no regrets is no way to live. And you'll see why in this In Case You Missed It episode. I hope you enjoy it. I'm going through a breakup right now.

And so that's There's regret in Choosing to be together and there's regret and also choosing to be apart. We all replay dumb things we did in the past. I think a lot of my regrets stems from like school work. Every school year comes around and I'm like this year I'm gonna do better and then like I don't.

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