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It’s Useful to Feel You Could Have Done Things Differently, Even if It’s a Fiction

It’s Useful to Feel You Could Have Done Things Differently, Even if It’s a Fiction

It is only because we reflect on the things that could so easily have been done differently if conditions or our frame of mind had been slightly different that we learn to take responsibility and do better next time.

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