Don't regret regret talk by Kathryn Schulz author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error.
"If we have goals and dreams and if we wanna do our best and if we love people and we don't want to hurt them or lose them, then we should feel pain when things go wrong. The point isn't to live without any regrets but point is that not to hate ourselves for having them.
We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things we create and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly but it reminds us that we can do better."
"If we have goals and dreams and if we wanna do our best and if we love people and we don't want to hurt them or lose them, then we should feel pain when things go wrong. The point isn't to live without any regrets but point is that not to hate ourselves for having them.
We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things we create and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly but it reminds us that we can do better."
My another favorite was Bruce Schneier's talk on security (his book Schneier on Security is a must read)
"If someone is living in fear--whether it's fear of the burglar on your block or the fanatical dictator half a planet away--it's because she doesn't understand how the game of security is played. She longs for a fortress, for a fairy-tale solution that will work forever after. It's a perfectly reasonable longing, and its because she thinks about security in terms of absolutes or magnifies her level of risk based on her experiences with the media, both news and fiction. There's a smart way to be scared. It involves moving beyond fear and thinking sensibly about trade-offs. It involves looking beyond the newspaper headlines and getting a feel for the numbers: a feel for the threats and risks, and the efficacy of the countermeasures. It involves making sensible security trade-offs. The smart way to be scared is to be streetwise."
- Bruce Schneier, Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World
"If someone is living in fear--whether it's fear of the burglar on your block or the fanatical dictator half a planet away--it's because she doesn't understand how the game of security is played. She longs for a fortress, for a fairy-tale solution that will work forever after. It's a perfectly reasonable longing, and its because she thinks about security in terms of absolutes or magnifies her level of risk based on her experiences with the media, both news and fiction. There's a smart way to be scared. It involves moving beyond fear and thinking sensibly about trade-offs. It involves looking beyond the newspaper headlines and getting a feel for the numbers: a feel for the threats and risks, and the efficacy of the countermeasures. It involves making sensible security trade-offs. The smart way to be scared is to be streetwise."
- Bruce Schneier, Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World
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