Psychology - New Year's Resolutions - Regret - Mental Health - New York Times

Psychology - New Year's Resolutions - Regret - Mental Health - New York Times: "Over the past decade and a half, psychologists have studied how regrets — large and small, recent and distant — affect people’s mental well-being. They have shown, convincingly though not surprisingly, that ruminating on paths not taken is an emotionally corrosive exercise. The common wisdom about regret — that what hurts the most is not what you did but what you didn’t do — also appears to be true, at least in the long run."