評論
打印
So let's start off by defining some terms. What is regret?
首先讓我們定義一下幾個詞語。什么是后悔？
Regret is the emotion we experience when we think that our present situation could be better or happier if we had done something different in the past.
后悔是我們覺得如果過去做法不同，當下的狀況就會更好更幸福時的情緒表達。
So in other words, regret requires two things. It requires, first of all, agency-we had to make a decision in the first place.
也就是，后悔包含兩點。首先是對象—我們曾經作出的決定。
And second of all, it requires imagination.
第二是想像。
We need to be able to imagine going back and making a different choice, and then we need to be able to kind of spool this imaginary record forward and imagine how things would be playing out in our present.
我們要想像如果能回到過去，作出不同的選擇，那么我們就能據此想像未來，眼下的事情會如何發展。
And in fact, the more we have of either of these things-the more agency and the more imagination with respect to a given regret, the more acute that regret will be.
這兩樣我們有的越多—在一種遺憾上有更多的對象和想像，這種后悔就越強烈。
