Regret — how to use it to your advantage.

Steve Glaveski
4 min readJan 16, 2024

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.”
Kurt Vonnegut

Regret is perhaps one of the most debilitating of our emotions.

It can eat us alive and occupy all of our brain space, rendering it difficult for us to fully focus on anything else for hours and sometimes days on end.

This is especially true when there’s nothing we can do to undo what’s been done (or not done as is often the case).

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Steve Glaveski

CEO of Collective Campus. HBR writer. Author of Time Rich, and Employee to Entrepreneur. Host of Future Squared podcast. Occasional surfer.