I concur.
Go read the entire article. And look up the artist whose images accompany the story.
Psychology – New Year’s Resolutions – Regret – Mental Health – New York Times
Over the past decade and a half, psychologists have studied how regrets — large and small, recent and distant — affect people’s mental well-being. They have shown, convincingly though not surprisingly, that ruminating on paths not taken is an emotionally corrosive exercise. The common wisdom about regret — that what hurts the most is not what you did but what you didn’t do — also appears to be true, at least in the long run.
It’s one of those things that seems intuitive enough, but knowing it is different from living it.
Those graphics are striking. I love the NYT’s design work, especially in the Magazine.
January 1, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Yeah. I wish I could be more creative with my photos like that.
January 1, 2008 at 6:31 pm