Interesting articles - Understanding regret and two ways to avoid it

Daniel Pink outlines two techniques for helping him to decided on a course of action when he is stuck:

• One he calls the “90-year-old me Test.” – where you imagine you are 90 and looking back at the decision before. What will I want to have done in this situation? In most cases, the 90-year-old me wants today’s me to take an intelligent risk rather than to avoid one — and to act nobly rather than like an ass.

• The other he calls the “Viktor Frankl Test.” In his book, Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl advises: “Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.”