Not everything “happens for a reason”. Rather, things happen a certain way. Then at the end of how the actions and reactions manifest, it happened for the best the most supreme solution and outcome.
Perhaps regret regarding what you said, what you didn’t say, or what you did or what you didn’t do — it shouldn’t be some sort of self flagellation and wishing that you could have gotten back in time and changed your speech strategy or action strategy. Perhaps instead of “regret”, it is some sort of corrective faculty for future actions. And this is good.
Which actions or modes of doing gives you more power?
- The more people in your family and squad, the more power potential for you. The strength of additional money, hands, resources, tools, intelligence and expedience, social networks, as well as people being able to drive. Perhaps this is also why having more kids is good for your power augmentation in the long run. So if your long term goal is maximal power, you should perhaps strive to have as many kids as humanly possible.
- The more money in the bank you got, and the less possessions you own and gotta maintain, the more power you have. Money is a potentiality thing — if you desire to do or build something. Money not for possession or even tool accumulation. Money is great because you cannot be force led to do what you don’t want to do. Also as long as you got more money in the bank than someone else, you got more power than them. And it isn’t a comparison of possessions, your car, your home etc. If you got $500,000 in the bank, yet the other person has the Lamborghini or the Tesla but only has $100,000 in cash in the bank (but “owns” his home), you still have more power than him.
- Work — self employment. As long as you work for someone else or some foreign entity, you have less power. For example even if the other guy earns $10 million dollars a year as CEO, but is still employed by the company, he has less power than you (assuming you’re self employed and also financially independent meaning you don’t need to work all the time if you don’t want to.