Curious - what’s the greatest regret of your life that you wish you could turn back?

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Let two relationships drag on for a combined 8 years when I knew they weren’t the right person for me and now I’m almost 30 and single as a Pringle. Thought I’d be happily married with kids by now if you asked me 10 years ago.

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Gaining weight

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Spending 20 years of my life in Indian consulting firms

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D3 I find it hilarious that Cogni is considered Indian now(?)😂

Being born

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Strongly disagree on the last part, but it is what it is

I sold fake ID’s in college in 2011. I had at one point thousands of bitcoins as that was the only method of payment my supplier took. Converted them all to cash immediately :/

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Jumping over a tennis net in 8th grade. Literally shattered my elbow and I could have totally avoided it if I wasn’t an idiot lol.

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Damn! That really sucks. Hope you’re doing better now?

Mostly related to times where I didn't push harder for something I wanted:

- College applications. Went to a decent school, but I definitely could have taken the SAT another time and spent more time on my applications
- College major. Wanted to transfer to CS my first year in college, but the school admin was really discourgaging it and convinced me to stay in my BBA program. I now wish I had a more academic and quantitative educational background.
- UN PKO deployment to Africa. I applied for a spot in my home country's PKO units during my military service, but my CO didn't want to lose a person, and half assed his recommendation letter. I wished I pushed harder on convincing him to transfer me.
- Travel. I had some ambitious trips I've always wanted to take, including a trip across Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railroad and a trip to Persepolis in Iran. Kept pushing it back, but now realize that those trips will now be a lot difficult with geopolitical changes.

C'est la vie, it's important to take these memories as lessons. Regret is powerful in guiding us to better decisions in the future, and I actively remind myself of theses regrets whenever I need to push myself.

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Back in 2011 as an E1 in the military I was looking at investing $500. I had just heard about Bitcoin but wanted to be responsible and put it in an index fund instead.

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Bought 5 bitcoin for $30 in 2012 and swapped it with a guy on Craigslist for a gaming computer in nov 2013. That computer doesn’t even start up now.

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Not majoring in computer science. Now 27, and I love love love learning it in my free time. I feel so stupid for taking the easy way in college and majoring in accounting.

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Did both of my undergrad and first masters in accounting. Decided to get another masters in IT. I am 4 years behind most of my college friends in terms of my career because of it. But I feel like I had better understanding at things in my career than they do now.

To not have spoken up to a horrible boss on multiple occasions for fear of retaliation when I witnessed all kinds of unprofessional and discriminatory behavior. I fkd up.

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Depending upon my frustration level, either not getting into consulting earlier or buying this house that I'm in. Though neither is absolute regret-sometimes I'm still able to find some silver linings in those things.

Today it's absolutely the house, though.

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Oh absolutely buy if you can. I don't regret being a homeowner at all and if this were the only way, I'd still do it. It's THIS house and my silly idea that buying a fixer upper with this much going on was going to be some fun adventure with my husband. Turns out it's not for everyone. I've learned more than I could have hoped for, but I. Just so tired and want the damn projects to stop ruling my life.

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Regret that I couldn’t have foreseen at the time: not investing in BTC back in 2011

Biggest actual regret (knew on some level it was wrong at the time): moving to Chicago instead of staying in New York. I’ve since rectified it, but that was a couple of wasted years.

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Not going abroad for med school after getting accepted. Medicine was always my dream career, but I let the fear of not being able to come back to practice as the main deterrent for not pursuing this option. 6 years later, and I absolutely regret not doing this esp seeing a lot of my friends/classmates who went abroad coming back and practicing med and doing something they love. Feel miserable in consulting

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Not sure if you need to hear this but you could still go to med school if you wanted I assume

I have no regrets but a few bad decisions I made in 2021. I turned my $45k of mutual funds into $20k on losing stocks. Until I hit big on CLOV and SoFi and turned $20k to $350k basically overnight. I then turned that back to $65k through horrible gambling. Low and behold, I got lucky again and turned that back to $230k only to once again squander it down to the $30k I have now. Luckily I paid off my car and some of my house along the way but man I wish I just threw that $350k in SPY right away. Good lesson to learn at 28 though

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Dating long distance on and off for 3 years in college. I knew it wasn’t the right person. Not the end of the world and I think I honestly would have moved on buttttttttttt covid came and basically wrecked my social life the last two years.

Feel like most of my adult life has been social constricted and I am pretty extroverted person so I have been unhappy with how things have turned out

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Getting married too young and not getting a Masters degree.

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Out of curiosity what did you want a Masters in?

Keeping an incredibly toxic “friend” around too long. It took a physical assault incident for me to finally cut her out of my life after 8ish years of emotional manipulation. I’m fine but I’ll never get that time and energy back.

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Not having a lot of money saved after 5+ years of working full time (I have less than 10k saved)
Losing $50000 on an exchange that was a rugpull (cryptsy)
I’m 25 and I still haven’t really dated anyone - my fault, because I have abandonment issues so I don’t date anyone
Having spent my childhood on the computer (though it’s a half regret, because it’s also why I am successful professionally today)

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I am currently happy with the life I’m living. So if any ill conceived decisions played a part in getting me to this point, I choose not to bother regretting them.

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Second this. Any of the bad decisions I’ve made have put me in the spot I’m in today. Happy with where life has taken me thus far through the ups and downs.

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Turning 2k-50k from doge last year and selling out in Jan at 0.03 instead of letting it ride

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