Decision-Making Trick; Better Regret
Regrets are generally not good, but when making decisions, it would make sense to go with the one that has the lowest possibility of regret. If two possible regretful things are involved it is logical that they are compared with each other and the one with the lowest probability of regret is what I refer to as the “better regret.”
Let us start with the regret of things that were not done but could have been done:
Those types of regrets even in a short window of time they can still be done, they can be tried to fix, and there is a possibility of success as there is a possibility of failure, but not doing it at all before the timeframe ends would be irreversible.
Now the other type of regret:
A Regret of things that should not have been done but were done. Now those types of regrets even in a long window cannot be often reversed, because then all that is left is regret. There is no ability to change things, even if it is possible to fix those things, the possibility of success is low, and the little window of time left isn’t enough for a Ctrl Z. I know, a computer makes it look easy to undo things but it is hard almost impossible in reality.
Examples;
Opening a drink is easier than sealing it back, to seal it, it would most likely take a long time and more resources to just seal it than to open it. In a real-life setting you can imagine if both of them can be regretful in the end, which do you think is the better regret?
Losing virginity is obviously easier than getting back lost virginity, I have heard of doctors in China who conduct operations/surgery to put in an artificial hymen, which do you think would be more regretful if it turns out to be a mistake, losing virginity or keeping virginity?
Frying an egg can be a good thing but when it turns out to be a mistake and the raw egg is needed then what happens, I have heard of the possibility of turning a boiled egg back to a raw one but I don’t know of turning a fried egg back, which do you think is better, to fry the egg and turns out you need it in the raw form or to not fry the egg and you need it in it fried form.
This is not to discourage you from activities like opening a drink, losing virginity, or frying an egg but to let you know that the better regret would mostly be not to do them and the reason is that not doing them can be fixed by doing them but doing them can be hard and sometimes impossible to undo and when making decisions it would be smart to integrate the better regret trick into decision making
There are exceptions, not saving a life can be a bad regret yet it involves you not doing anything, in this “not so many few exceptions”, not doing something is you doing something.
If the exceptions are not so few then what other examples do you have of situations when not doing something is, you doing something?
A permanent decision should not be done until you are certain about it, it is better to do it at the last possible minute than to do it early and it turns out to be the wrong decision to make.
What I am trying to explain is this;
You can regret not doing something and you can regret doing something but many times when you regret doing something then it can be hard to undo them, sometimes it can be impossible to undo them but when you regret doing something it is usually easy to rectify the regret by just doing the “something” you didn’t initially do, I hope I am not confusing you with my excessive use of the word “something”
Also, there are exceptions, there is a possibility that not doing something is worse than doing something the trick is that in any decision you make ensure you look for a way out, a loophole if you may, the decision that can be easily “CTRL Z”, what I refer to as better regret.
