That’s a great question and I initially refrained from offering my own value judgement and but i’ll offer you my opinion here.

I was interviewing a woman yesterday, an entrepreneur who has started her own company and we both spoke and agreed on the point about regret.

It can swing both ways as you can regret doing something as well as not doing it but in the context of the article I’m talking about not doing something because you’re afraid of the outcome.

Lets take the example of y’day. You want to start a business. It’s going to cost you money and you may have to quit your full time job. You may think about the regret aspect i.e. thinking from the future perspective and what you life would be like if you don’t just do it!

Your business may fail. It might succeed but there’s no gaurantee. If you don’t do it however you will never know. You will never have given yourself that opportunity to know.

So there is no right or wrong way choose. Both are powerful forces in their own right. My intention was to give an alternate perspective on things!

If I feel fear of something, I often think about the regret I’ll feel if I don’t do it…and that usually gives me enough of a reason to do it!

“You can see from the two examples that…”

you bring future feelings… those of regret to the present and weigh them alongside the fear feelings. Whichever you focus more on guide you to a decision.

Are you saying what should be given more importance? fear or regret? and consequently, should any decision be made out of any of these fears?