Is "No regrets" an amazing motto for life? Probably not. Regret is a natural response to making mistakes. If you genuinely had no regrets, you'd never learn from experience. It wouldn't matter to you whether you caused problems for your future self or hurt other people. At the other extreme, some people are paralyzed by regret. Instead of learning from their mistakes, they are unable to move on from them. If you feel that your past mistakes are holding you back, it's easy to see why "No regrets" sounds so attractive. But you can't live without any regrets; you need to find a way to use them, to learn from them and to move on.

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