Kathryn Schulz
Kathryn Schulz
Kathryn Schulz is an American journalist and author, and the former book critic for New York magazine. She joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2015. Schulz won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for feature reporting for her New Yorker article on a potential large earthquake in the Pacific Northwest...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
regret thinking ugly
Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are.
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Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.
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If you Google 'regret and tattoo,' you will get 11.5 million hits.
regret past knows
Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know that we could do better.
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The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.
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I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets.
regret past creating
We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesen't remind us what we did badly, it reminds us what we know we could do better.
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If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.
regret hate
The point isn’t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.
almost both browse eclectic entirely eventually feels hugely inside internal lived shapes
As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.
reminds
Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.
mistake wow knows
Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.
dream hurt pain
If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when things go wrong. The point isn’t to live without any regrets, the point is to not hate ourselves for having them… We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly — it reminds us that we know we can do better.
nice errors people
Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our own brilliance and exult in other people's errors is not very nice, although it is certainly very human.