Mindset

 Whatever choice you make, there's actual research backing why peace with it matters more than getting it perfect.

Psychologists Thomas Gilovich and Victoria Medvec studied regret over time and found something counterintuitive. In the short term, people regret actions more than inactions, the things they did that went wrong. But over the long run, that flips completely. The regrets that linger for years are almost always about what someone never tried.

Your mind processes a failed attempt very differently from an unexplored "what if." A failed attempt gets filed as information, closed, understood, even if it stings. An unanswered "what if" stays open indefinitely, resurfacing for years because your mind never got the data it needed to close the loop.

This is why trying and failing is often the better outcome for your long-term mind, even when it doesn't feel that way in the moment. It closes something. Never trying leaves it open forever.

Make the choice. Make peace with it either way. Your future mind will thank you, and it's the "what ifs" you'll actually regret.

Make the choice. Make peace with it either way. Your future mind will thank you, and it's the "what ifs" you'll actually regret. DrCarolineLeaf - PersonalGrowth

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