A closer look
Have you ever beat yourself up over making a ‘bad choice’ years ago? Psychologists call this hindsight bias — the illusion that you “should have seen it coming.” But decisions are really made with the messy, incomplete data of that moment. Think about it like driving in fog: you only see a few meters ahead. By reframing mistakes as experiments that gave you sharper instincts, you reclaim energy instead of getting frozen in regret. A trick: whenever you begin thinking, “I should have known,” replace it with, “I learned because I didn’t know.” That simple mental swap rewires the sting into resilience.
