The Only Thing People Actually Regret

Watch the full Commitment episode on the Solved podcast: https://mrk.mn/tc7phn0t. People don't regret the decisions they made. They regret the ones they never got around to making. I've made plenty of bad calls, lost money, embarrassed myself, and the only things I truly regret are the times I hurt someone I love. Drew and I get into the research on regret, Annie Duke's point that we all quit too late, and why a bias toward action beats a bias toward waiting almost every time. You're taking too long to decide, and it's costing you more than a wrong decision ever would. Chapters Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction: The Only Thing Worth Regretting 00:00:42 The Research on Regret: Actions vs Inactions 00:01:32 The Compulsion to Take Action 00:02:45 The Danger of Waiting Too Long 00:03:37 The Volume Game: Why More Decisions Make Better Decisions 00:04:08 Kierkegaard's Ethical Life: Commitments Create the Self 00:04:52 James Marcia's Identity Formation Framework 00:05:36 The Four Identity Statuses Explained 00:07:06 What a Strong Sense of Self Actually Means 00:09:06 The Upward Spiral: How Commitments Build Confidence and Self-Knowledge ⇨ Sign up for my newsletter, Your Next Breakthrough. It will help make you a less awful person: https://go.markmanson.net/msub25ez ⇨ Get clarity on what actually matters. Try Purpose, Mark's AI mentor app that learns your patterns, challenges your blind spots, and helps you take action. Get started at https://go.markmanson.net/8owt1jc4 FOLLOW MARK Mark's IG: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/markmanson⁠ Solved IG: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/solvedpodcast/⁠ Twitter: ⁠https://x.com/markmanson⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmanson/⁠ #MarkManson #Solved #Regret #DecisionMaking #Commitment #AnnieDuke #SelfImprovement