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This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.<\/em><\/p>\n Regret, my colleague Julie Beck wrote in 2016, is \u201cthe emotional price we pay for free will.\u201d If we were just pawns tossed around on the chessboard of life, she explains, there\u2019d be nothing to regret. Most of us would probably take that trade-off: Better to make mistakes than to have no control at all. But even so, none of us enjoys the experience of regret.<\/p>\n Looking backward can be an act of desperate refusal to accept the passage of time: What if? If only. I should\u2019ve. I could\u2019ve. But maybe there\u2019s a way to make regret less about the past\u2014by giving in to those feelings of sadness or disappointment or guilt, just for a little while, we might learn something new about ourselves right now, in the present.<\/p>\n On Regret<\/strong><\/p>\n The Problem With \u2018No Regrets\u2019<\/p>\n By Arthur C. Brooks<\/p>\n If you never pine for a different past, you\u2019ll stay trapped in a cycle of mistakes. (From 2022<\/em>)<\/p>\n Read the article.<\/p>\n Dear Therapist\u2019s Guide to Dealing With Regret<\/p>\n By Rebecca J. Rosen<\/p>\n Moving forward doesn\u2019t mean leaving the past behind\u2014it means figuring out how to make sense of it in the present. (From 2021<\/em>)<\/p>\n Read the article.<\/p>\n Regret Is the Price of Free Will<\/p>\n By Julie Beck<\/p>\n Feeling in control of your life is good for you, but it can also lead to heartbreak over mistakes and lost opportunities. (From 2016<\/em>)<\/p>\n Read the article.<\/p>\n Still Curious?<\/p>\n Other Diversions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. Regret, my colleague Julie Beck wrote in 2016, is \u201cthe emotional price we pay for free will.\u201d If<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[7462,16499],"class_list":{"0":"post-27713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-regret","9":"tag-wallowing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}