Motivation is often incorrectly perceived as an innate capability or characteristic. More accurately, it is a socially influenced quality related to a person’s desire to pursue a goal or act in a particular way. Notably, this quality is instilled or enhanced within individuals if they are ready to accept change. Motivational interviewing does just that; it is a counseling style that challenges people to develop the internal motivations necessary to counteract or change certain behaviors they consider problematic in their lives.

Motivational Interviewing: History, How it Works, Effectiveness

Motivational interviewing is a counseling style that challenges people to develop the internal motivations necessary to counteract or change certain behaviors they consider problematic in their lives.

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Johann Hari is a writer and journalist. He has written for the New York Times, Le Monde, The Guardian, and other newspapers. His TED Talks have been viewed over 70 million times, and his work has been praised by a broad range of people, from Oprah Winfrey to Noam Chomsky to Joe Rogan.Below, Johann shares key insights from his new book, Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again.

Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention

We are now living in a serious crisis of attention—one that is analogous to the obesity crisis, or the climate crisis. The average college student now spends just 65 seconds on each task. The average office worker spends just three minutes. Even the average Fortune 500 CEO only gets 28 minutes of uninterrupted focus a day.

We Are Living In A Focusless World

Most of us are responding to this crisis by blaming ourselves. “You’re weak, you’re lazy, your willpower isn’t strong enough.” Hari has spent three years traveling all over the world, interviewing over 200 leading experts on this subject. What he learned from them is that this is, in fact, a systemic crisis—one that is happening to all of us—and it requires systemic solutions.

We Are Blaming Ourselves For Our Inability To Focus

Professor Joel Nigg, one of the leading experts on children’s attention problems, told Hari that we need to ask if we are living in an “attentional pathogenic environment,” one in which tasks that require deep focus—like reading a book—are becoming more and more like running up a down escalator. Professor Barbara Demeneix, a French scientist, told him, “There is no way we can have a normal brain today.”

But Our Brain Can’t Be Normal Anymore

Hari learned that there is scientific evidence for 12 factors that can degrade our attention—and many of those factors have been rising dramatically in the past few years. In other words, your attention didn’t collapse; it was stolen by these big and powerful forces. You haven’t become weak. You’ve been hacked. Interestingly, tech—which is normally the first cause we think of—is playing a significant role, but it isn’t the biggest of the causes. To get out of this crisis—to get our brains back—we need to first understand these 12 causes, and then deal with them one by one.

Our Brain Has Been Hacked 

Professor Earl Miller, one of the leading neuroscientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), told Hari bluntly: “Your brain can only produce one or two thoughts” in your conscious mind at once. That’s it. “We’re very, very single-minded.” Yet the average young person now believes they can follow six or seven forms of media at the same time.

Our Brain Is Not, By Nature, A Juggler

When neuroscientists studied this simultaneous multiple following they found that when people believe they are doing several things at once, they are actually—as Miller explained—“juggling. They’re switching back and forth. They don’t notice the switching because their brain sort of papers it over, to give a seamless experience of consciousness. But what they’re actually doing is switching and reconfiguring their brain moment-to-moment, task-to-task—[and] that comes with a cost.”

So It Acts Like A Switcher

When your brain is switching back and forth “your performance drops, you’re slower—all as a result of the switching.” It feels like a small effect, but it degrades your attention and thinking by a startling amount. One study at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human Computer Interaction Lab took 136 students and got them to take a test. Some of them had to have their phones switched off, and others had their phones on and received intermittent text messages. The students who received messages performed, on average, 20% worse. Other studies in similar scenarios have found even worse outcomes of 30%

First, It Does The Tape Stop Effect

But it gets worse still. Professor Michael Posner at the University of Oregon found that if you are interrupted, it takes you an average of 23 minutes to get back to the same level of focus you had before you were disturbed. So if your screen time shows that you spend three hours a day on your phone, you are losing much more. Yet we are surrounded by apps like Facebook that are designed to interrupt you and get you to pick up your device and start scrolling.

And Then It Hits Rewind

Imagine that, one day, you are attacked by a bear, and you survive. In the weeks and months that follow, your attention will shift, involuntarily, from focusing on the things in front of you—say, your emails—to scanning for dangers all around you. You will find it harder to focus on more everyday concerns because you are primed to spot unexpected threats. Now imagine that, just as you start to feel safe, you are attacked by a bear again. You will then flip into a state called “hypervigilance,” where you are constantly scanning for risks, and find it impossible to focus.

The Psychology Behind Struggling To Focus: (Hyper)Vigilance

But this phenomenon isn’t limited to bear attacks; any stressful situation will trigger greater vigilance. This is why stress—at work or at home—so often causes a huge increase in attention problems. As Dr. Jon Jureidini, a leading child psychiatrist in Adelaide, Australia, told Hari, narrowing your focus is “a really good strategy in a safe environment, because it means you can learn things and flourish and develop.”

The Greater The Vigilance, The Lesser The Focus

“But if you are in a dangerous environment, selective attention [where you focus on just one thing] is a really dumb strategy. What you need instead is to evenly spread vigilance around your environment, looking for cues for danger.” In short, deep focus is something you can only really do when you have achieved safety. So, nobody should blame themselves for struggling to focus during a pandemic.

So, What Deep Focus Really Requires Is Safety

A new field of science has emerged in the past few years called “nutritional psychiatry”—the study of how what we eat affects how our brain works. By interviewing some of the leading figures in this field, Hari learned that the unprecedented shift in the Western world toward eating mostly processed foods has seriously affected our ability to focus, in three ways.

The Biology Behind Struggling To Focus: (Hyper)Processed Diet

The first, as one of Britain’s leading nutritionists, Dr. Dale Pinnock, explained to Hari, is that our diet causes huge energy spikes, and then energy crashes—which leave us with brain fog. Imagine, for instance, that you eat white bread or Frosties for breakfast; that releases glucose really fast, giving you a rush of energy. But then your blood sugar crashes, and you slump at your desk, feeling drained and unable to think clearly. It is, Pinnock said, “like putting rocket fuel into a Mini. It would just burn out and bust very quickly—because it can’t handle that.

Ways Processed Diet Affects Focus - Energy Spikes And Crashes

Secondly, our current diet deprives us of key nutrients that are necessary for our brains to fully develop and grow. A Dutch study assigned children to a diet where they had to cut out most of the synthetic, processed foods we normally eat. 70% of them experienced an increase in attention—and the average improvement was of 50%.

Ways Processed Diet Affects Focus - Lack Of Nutrients

Thirdly, our current diet contains dyes and chemicals that act on our brains like drugs, amping us up. A study in Southampton in Britain took a group of kids and divided them in two. One was given a plain drink, and the other was given a cocktail of dyes and other chemicals that are found in the candies kids eat every day. The kids given the cocktail were significantly more likely to become wild. We already knew the Western diet was making us obese, but it is also ruining our focus.

Ways Processed Diet Affects Focus - Abundance Of Additives

There are two levels at which we need to respond to this crisis. The first is as isolated individuals, by making changes in our own lives and our children’s lives, to protect ourselves from the forces invading our attention. Hari learned many different techniques, which he goes through in the book. To name just one that really helped him: he bought a K-Safe, a small plastic safe that will lock away your smartphone for however long you tell it to. So he imprisons his phone and gets x hours of undisturbed time every day.

How We Can Respond As Individuals

Individual changes will help, but they will only get us so far. At the moment, it is as though we are all being covered with itching powder, and the person pouring the itching powder on us is saying, “You know, you might want to learn to meditate. Then you wouldn’t scratch so much.” Meditation does have value, but we need to band together and collectively take on the forces pouring this powder on us, and stop them.

How We Can Respond As A Society

Hari names, unsurprisingly, the social media.He claims that as long as social media companies profit from interrupting and distracting us, they will find ever-more sophisticated techniques to do it. We need to force them to adopt a different business model.

Who’s Pouring The Itching Powder? 

There’s a precedent, as the <a href="https://nextbigideaclub.com/conversation-the-father-of-virtual-reality-on-how-facebook-is-messing-with-your-mind/18641/">technologist Jaron Lanier </a>has pointed out. In the 1970s, we learned that the lead that was found in our paint and our gasoline was damaging our children’s brains. So, we banned the lead. We still paint our homes and drive our cars—but without lead. We now need to do the same with the factors that are ruining our attention today. This requires a shift in perspective. We need to stop asking for tiny tweaks.

There Was Once Another Poison That Is No More

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”

“I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.”

Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can. 

Acclaimed journalist Johann Hari shares 5 key insights from his new book, Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again.

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Stolen Focus: Why We Can’t Pay Attention—and How We Can Think Deeply Again

With developments such as Covid-19, income inequality, and political polarisation, the demands on our energy are surpassing our capacity. Four zones describe our energy levels:<ul><li>The performance zone. When your energy is high and positive.</li><li>The survival zone. When your energy is high, but you're feeling threatened or devalued.</li><li>The burnout zone. When your energy is low, and you feel helpless or exhausted.</li><li>The renewal zone. When your energy is low but positive.</li></ul> Many are spending their time in the survival and burnout zones. However, using certain practices can help to avoid these zones.

Understanding the energy quadrants to manage energy

A marathoner needs a measured pace where you can't push yourself to the limit. However, a sprinter can use 100% of themselves in every race and only stop when they've crossed the finish line. People function best when they alternate between spending and renewing energy. Two of the most beneficial sources of regulation are:<ul><li>Sufficient sleep - seven to eight hours.</li><li>Exercise that raises your heart rate.</li></ul>

Become a sprinter, not a marathoner

Self-judgement is because we allow our inner critic to make us feel less. Then we turn our judgment on others to try and feel better. But moving between the two extremes make us forever try to prove our worthiness at the expense of ourselves and others. When you notice those feelings arise, try to only notice them without judging yourself.

Replace self-observation for judgment

If someone or something triggers a surge of negative emotion in you, take a deep breath and notice where in your body you feel tension. Just noticing your emotion allows you to distance yourself from your reaction. Then turn your attention to becoming relaxed.

When you feel bad, it's not the full picture

Think about a person, place, animal or activity that makes you feel safe and secure. When you're in a difficult situation, use these steady sources of support.

Create a sage space for yourself

Take up something you enjoy for its own sake. What activity do you love and have given up on, but you could do it as a source of renewal for an hour or two a week?

Take up a hobby

Care and empathy is a powerful source of self-regulation and healing. While we all long to feel valued and seen by others, we can't guarantee they'll do that for us. But we can appreciate others, and in turn, it always makes us feel better about ourselves.

Make someone else feel valued

Six tactics to help you manage your energy.

What to Do When You’re Stuck in the Survival Zone

<ul><li>One of the major attractions of becoming a psychologist is the opportunity to help others. </li></ul>If you enjoy working with people, a career in psychology is a great choice. While the job can be stressful at times, many psychologists describe their jobs as very gratifying and fulfilling.

1. Find Reward In Helping Others

<ul><li>One big advantage of <a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/how-to-become-a-psychologist-2794942">becoming a psychologist </a>is that you can have a rewarding career and still have plenty of time to spend with your friends and family.</li></ul>Psychologists who work in hospitals or mental health offices may not have work schedules that are as flexible as their self-employed counterparts, but there are still plenty of opportunities to set hours that work with your life and family demands.

2. Have A Flexible Work Schedule

Some individuals opt to work part-time, still earning a respectable income while leaving time to care for children and fulfill other personal obligations.<ul><li>It is important to note that these salaries reflect professionals who hold advanced degrees in their fields.</li><li> Those who have earned an undergraduate degree in psychology cannot refer to themselves as psychologists, as it is a legally protected title. </li><li>Those with <a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/what-can-you-do-with-a-bachelors-degree-in-psychology-2794943">bachelor's level degrees </a>also face lower salaries and fewer job options than those with more training.</li></ul>

3. Earn A Potentially High Salary 

If you enjoy working for yourself and have an entrepreneurial spirit, becoming a psychologist can be an excellent career choice. Establishing your own private therapy practice gives you the opportunity to have full control over your career.<ul><li>Psychologists working in specialized fields such as <a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/industrial-organizational-psychology-careers-2795653">industrial-organizational psychology </a>, educational psychology, and <a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/forensic-psychology-careers-2795639">forensic psychology </a>may also find opportunities for self-employment as private consultants.</li></ul>

4. Run Your Own Business

The field of psychology is both diverse and challenging, so no matter which field you choose to pursue, you probably won't find yourself bored very often. <ul><li>Clinical psychologists face constant challenges from clients who need their help in solving problems.</li><li>Other specialty areas such as sports psychology and forensic psychology face their own unique demands and obstacles. Being a psychologist might be stressful at times, but the profession presents intellectual challenges that keep the job interesting.</li></ul>

5. Find Plenty Of New Challenges

If you enjoy working with people and helping them achieve their full potential, then becoming a psychologist can be extremely rewarding.<ul><li>Whether you are <a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/child-psychologist-2795637">working exclusively with children </a>, adults, married couples or families, you will have the opportunity to meet and help people from all walks of life.</li></ul>

6. Meet A Wide Variety Of People

Learn more about some of the six great reasons you might want to choose a career as a psychologist.

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Sensorimotor <a href="https://thehumancondition.com/what-is-psychotherapy/">psychotherapy</a> is a type of somatic therapy in which practitioners treat clients’ physical symptoms resulting from the <a href="https://thehumancondition.com/mental-health-and-conditions/trauma/">trauma</a> they have experienced. This type of <a href="https://thehumancondition.com/psychotherapy-introduction-benefits/">psychotherapy</a> views the person’s physical experiences as a way to access unresolved <a href="https://thehumancondition.com/mental-health-and-conditions/trauma/">trauma</a>, bring greater self-<a href="https://thehumancondition.com/mindful-awareness-health-and-mental-wellness/">awareness</a>, and achieve improvements in <a href="https://thehumancondition.com/mental-health/">mental health</a>.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Background, Benefits, and Effectiveness

Sensorimotor psychotherapy is a body-centered therapeutic approach that focuses on identifying and treating the physical symptoms people experience as a result of unresolved trauma.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Background, Benefits, and Effectiveness - The Human Condition

Bilateral stimulation is used in therapeutic practices such as <a href="https://thehumancondition.com/eye-movement-desensitization-and-reprocessing-emdr-therapy/">eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy</a>. <a href="https://thehumancondition.com/eye-movement-desensitization-and-reprocessing-emdr-therapy/">EMDR therapy</a> seeks to help people access and process traumatic memories. Bilateral stimulation is used to help clients recall traumatic experiences.<a href="https://thehumancondition.com/bilateral-stimulation/">Read More</a>

Bilateral Stimulation: Definition, Methods, Benefits, and Effectiveness

Bilateral stimulation, drawing from EMDR therapy, is sometimes referred to as “resource installation” or “resource tapping” and is a method of processing traumatic memories and recalling and strengthening resources.

Bilateral Stimulation: Definition, Methods, Benefits, and Effectiveness - The Human Condition

Anxiety isn’t the same as stress, but they are related. <ul><li>Stress is a response to direct external stimuli that goes away when you tackle the problem. </li><li>But unlike stress, anxiety is impressively self-sufficient. It can happily exist all on its own, like a delicate snowflake of existential fear that won’t melt when the sun comes out.</li></ul>

The Workplace War: Work Anxiety Vs. Stress

Instead of trying to calm your way out of anxiety, reframe the feelings as excitement and convert performance-related anxiety into goal-busting arousal congruency—a fancy term for channeling that sense of adrenaline that comes from high-anxiety situations into a positive effort.The crucial part is to simply accept you are anxious. It’s easy to waste time and energy trying to fight anxiety on all fronts. So don’t do it.

Don’t Calm Down

Use your anxiety to access feelings of accomplishment. Tim Ferriss recommends going further to manage anxiety-induced low productivity. Set aside three hours to complete one small task, even if that means putting off other urgent tasks. Taking your time to get one thing off your plate is surely better than fumbling through three important tasks and completing none

Curb Analysis Paralysis

If you switch between tasks, seek distraction, and avoid addressing your goals, it could signal the beginnings of an anxiety episode. Closely monitor productivity fluctuations and you’ll essentially develop an early warning system for those anxious feelings. If you regularly beat yourself up for not doing enough then it’s very easy to miss your daily achievements. Remember that it’s not always about what you didn’t do.

Treat Your Productivity Like An Anxiety Barometer

How attached are you to your devices? Nomophobia is the fear of being without a connected device.The need to be constantly connected to information can skew priorities.  But your productivity should not depend on your ability to get online. In fact, by disconnecting, you remove a number of barriers to productivity. You can say goodbye to browser tab overload, for a start.

Go Off The Grid

If your anxiety spikes when you’re unclear of your goal, demanding high-quality feedback is important. Repeatedly trying to clarify action points can not only hamper productivity, it can make less assertive people feel burdensome to clients.

Ask For Feedback

56% of anxiety sufferers deal specifically with performance anxiety at work. Here are five proven theories to help you manage work anxiety in a productive way.

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f you’re feeling burned out in your virtual meetings, chances are your colleagues, team, and bosses are feeling it, too. You can try to pep talk your way out of it, but if you aren’t feeling engaged yourself, it is probably a futile strategy to energize your team. You must put your oxygen mask on first before helping others, as they say.

Communication burnout

When possible, if you know the goals of the meeting have been accomplished, and it is five, 10, or 15 minutes before the scheduled end, don’t feel obligated to use the entire time for the sake of using the entire time. Wrap up early when possible. It is a great way to acknowledge the meeting accomplished its purpose and allow the participants time for productivity or recharging.

Take time back

<ul><li>Be sure to give yourself at least 10 minutes in between meetings. Meetings will occasionally run over the allotted time. With a 10-minute buffer, you can avoid both being late to the next meeting and the associated stress of anticipating being late. </li><li>If you are running on time, you can take those 10-minute intervals to walk away from your screen, give your eyes a break.</li><li>It is also important to block off time specifically for responding to emails, attending to any work that doesn’t involve a live meeting or simply regrouping.</li></ul>

Get better at scheduling breaks

While routine can be comforting, strive for variety when it comes to your communication, especially in a virtual setting. One way to achieve this is with the camera function in your meetings. There can be a striking difference when interactions usually held on-camera move to audio-only. Communication is subtly looser and less adulterated. Likewise, interactions that are typically held using just audio can gain clarity and nuance when the cameras are turned on because you can recognize the nonverbal communication of the other participants.

Strive for variety 

A communications expert says you can try to pep talk your way out of it, but there are better ways to deal with the constant stream of virtual meetings, email, and chats.


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In the modern cybersecurity landscape, every employee is a potential threat vector. To keep their organizations safe, technical and business leaders alike must understand the factors that can make anyone susceptible to flouting policy and opening the door to attackers.
While the idea of a resentful employee purposefully trying to harm their company may make for a compelling story, research points to the major role of employee stress in motivating non-malicious (yet potentially catastrophic) security breaches.

Digital Attacks On Organizations

A recent study suggests that the vast majority of intentional policy breaches stem not from some malicious desire to cause harm, but rather, from the perception that following the rules would impede employees’ ability to get their work done effectively.
Employees are more likely to violate policy on days when they are more stressed out, suggesting that high-stress levels can reduce people’s tolerance for following rules that seem to get in the way of doing their jobs.

The Startling Findings

Common sources of stress include family demands that conflicted with work, job security fears, and ironically, the demands of the cybersecurity policies themselves.
People are more likely to violate procedures when they worry that following them would hinder productivity, require extra time or energy, mean doing their jobs in a different way, or make them feel like they were constantly being monitored.

The Leading Cause: Stress

There are a lot of well-intentioned reasons that an employee might knowingly fail to fully follow the rules.
Rather than focusing on malicious attacks, security policies should acknowledge the fact that many employee-driven breaches stem from an attempt to balance security and productivity. This means educating employees and managers on the prevalence of non-malicious violations and providing clear guidance on what to do if adherence to security practices seems to conflict with getting work done.

Malice And Ignorance Can Mix

As the myriad stresses of the pandemic make it harder to maintain productivity, that means that security tends to take a backseat to the critical tasks that drive performance reviews, promotions, and bonuses.
To address this, managers must recognize that job design and cybersecurity are fundamentally intertwined. The reality is that compliance with cybersecurity policies can add to employees’ workloads, and so it should be considered and incentivized alongside other performance metrics when workloads are determined.

Job Design and Cybersecurity Are Intertwined

in a study, around 18% of policy violations were motivated by a desire to help a coworker. The pandemic has only increased the challenges we all face every day, and thus has created even more opportunities for well-meaning employees to “help” their peers in ways that leave their organizations vulnerable. 
Hackers know this, and they will often intentionally use social engineering tactics that take advantage of employees’ willingness to bend the rules if they think they’re helping someone out.

Hackers Take Advantage of Altruism (Helping Coworkers)

Stress can reduce people’s tolerance for rules that seem to get in the way of doing their jobs.

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Research: Why Employees Violate Cybersecurity Policies

Regret is a very real reaction to a disappointing event in your life, a choice you made that can’t be changed, something you said that you can’t take back. It’s one of those feelings you can’t seem to shake, a heavy and intrusive negative emotion that can last for minutes, days, years <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-mindful-self-express/201205/the-psychology-regret">or even a lifetime </a>. Imaging studies reveal that feelings of regret show <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1514">increased activity </a> in an area of the brain called the medial orbitofrontal cortex.

Regret Is Very Real

Dealing with regret is even more difficult because of the other negative emotions connected to it: remorse, sorrow and helplessness. Regret can increase our stress, <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110301111503.htm">negatively affect physical health </a> and throw off the balance of hormone and immune systems. Regret is not only unpleasant. It is unhealthy.

Dealing With Regret 

As with other negative emotions, it doesn’t work to avoid, deny or try to squash regret. In the long run, these tactics only increase negative feelings and prolong the time you suffer with them. Rather than stay stuck, people can manage these emotions in four steps: First, accept the fact that you are feeling them; determine why you are feeling them; allow yourself to learn from them; and finally, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2015.1078292">release them and move forward </a>.

First Acce

This method of noticing and then restructuring your thoughts is sometimes called <a href="https://www.routledge.com/Living-Mindfully-Across-the-Lifespan-An-Intergenerational-Guide/Penberthy-Penberthy/p/book/9780367370152">cognitive reappraisal </a>. Seeing the situation in a different way may help reduce regret and help you <a href="https://adaa.org/learn-from-us/from-the-experts/blog-posts/consumer/how-handle-regret">make future decisions </a>.

Cognitive Reappraisa

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2015.1078292">Forgiving yourself </a> for actions taken or not taken is a powerful step toward overcoming regret. This has been formalized into a commonly used cognitive psychological model called <a href="https://www.evworthington-forgiveness.com/reach-forgiveness">REACH </a>, which asks people to recall the hurt (face it), empathize (be kind and compassionate), altruistically offer forgiveness (to oneself), commit publicly (share it) and then hold on to that forgiveness and <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00671">stay true to the decision </a>. Research shows that six hours of work with a trained professional using this model <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22073">can have a positive impact </a>.

REACH

This article is republished from <a href="https://theconversation.com/">The Conversation </a> under a Creative Commons license. Read the <a href="https://theconversation.com/regret-can-be-all-consuming-a-neurobehavioral-scientist-explains-how-people-can-overcome-it-172466">original article </a>.

Regret isn't just unpleasant, it's unhealthy

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Dealing with regret is even more difficult because of the other negative emotions connected to it: remorse, sorrow, and helplessness.

Regret can be all-consuming – a neurobehavioral scientist explains how people can overcome it

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