What is the best life? A life of adventure, challenge, risk, conquest, conquering, self testing, self expansion.
How do you want to look back at your life on your deathbed?
Probably one of the most interesting thought processes that I’ve gleaned from Jeff Bezos is the notion of the “regret minimization framework“. That when you’re looking back at your life, when you’re on your deathbed, at either 80 or 90 years old, how would you look back at your life?
Also, as Jeff Bezos said in his invent and wander book // book notes, typically a lot of our regrets in life are actually regrets of acts of omission, we regret what we did not do, we regret what we did not attempt, etc.
For example, typically things we regret is not having the courage to muster to talk to that one girl, the courage not to attempt to start that one business, or the regret of not speaking up for yourself or others when you witness an injustice.
For us weightlifters, I think the biggest regret we have is when we want to attempt to lift a certain weight, attempt a new personal record, for for some reason we checking out, and we only go halfway. I think in life, the only thing we should regret is our cowardice. In life, you must give it your all.