So let's say for instance that you're on your way to your best friend's wedding and you're trying to get to the airport and you're stuck in terrible traffic, and you finally arrive at your gate and yo
Well it did. But it turns out, it doesn't remind me of the thing I thought it would; it reminds me constantly of something else instead. 不过确实是只是让我想起的不是我当初希望的;而常常是其他东西,它常常让我想起。 It actually reminds me o
This idea is nicely captured by this quote: "Things without all remedy should be without regard; what's done is done." 有句话很好地表达了这个观点:“放开无法挽回的事情;泼出去水收不回来。” And it seems like kind of an admirable philos
The third way that I think we can help make our peace with regret is through the passage of time, which, as we know, heals all wounds-except for tattoos, which are permanent. 第三点我想就是通过时间的流逝来慢慢平和地面对遗憾,
Now there is a case to be made that control freaks and perfectionists should not get tattoos, and I'm going to return to that point in a few minutes. 那么有一点就是控制狂和完美主义者千万别纹身,一会儿我会提到这一点。 But first I want
Now within that framework, we can obviously experience regret about a lot of different things. 在这个模式下,我们显然常常后悔很多事情。 This session today is about behavioral economics. And most of what we know about reg
So in other words, we know most of what we know about regret by the study of finance. But it turns out, when you look overall at what people regret in life, you know what, our financial decisions don'
And this was all actually quite shocking to me, because prior to this moment, I had prided myself on having absolutely no regrets. 这让我十分震惊,因为在那之前,我告诉自己,我绝对不会后悔的。 I made a lot of mistakes and dumb deci
So let's start off by defining some terms. What is regret? 首先让我们定义一下几个词语。什么是后悔? Regret is the emotion we experience when we think that our present situation could be better or happier if we had done s
So how are we supposed to live with this? 那我们怎么才能面对悔恨? I want to suggest that there's three things that help us to make our peace with regret. 我想提三点建议来让我们平和地面对后悔。 And the first of these is to take som
But I want to suggest that there's also a fifth one. 但我想说还有第五阶段。 And I think of this as a kind of existential wake-up call. 我想这是一种自我觉醒。 That night in my apartment, after I got done kicking myself and
The second characteristic component of regret is a sense of bewilderment. 后悔第二波就是困惑感。 So the other thing I thought about there in my bedroom that night was, "How could I have done that? What was I thi
So that's Johnny Depp, of course. And that's Johnny Depp's shoulder. 这是强尼·德普,很显然,这是他的肩膀。 And that's Johnny Depp's famous shoulder tattoo. Some of you might know that, in 1990, Depp got engaged to Wino