Title: I was reading this Ask HN (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1879530) from about 6 years ago and wondered what HNers regret. Not necessarily your views on the concept of regret but actual examples from your life. I mainly regret not taking university seriously half a lifetime ago, but as a result I became a lifelong self-learner.<p>Suggested related reading on the topic:<p>&quot;In Praise of Missing Out: Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on the Paradoxical Value of Our Unlived Lives&quot;<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brainpickings.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;17&#x2F;missing-out-adam-phillips&#x2F;<p>___<p>In the Ask HN link above, a guy says he opened an unread email two years late and saw it was from Facebook in 2009 wanting to hire him.<p>Similarly, perhaps, one of my regrets was having received an early 2014 email that I didn&#x27;t open, from someone I didn&#x27;t much feel the need to keep in contact with. In late 2014, I finally read it. It was an offer to be the personal guide to the US team at the World Cup in Brazil...
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