TED演讲：不要一悔再悔(6)

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　　This session today is about behavioral economics. And most of what we know about regret comes to us out of that domain¹. 今天这个会议是关于行为经济学。我们知道的大部分“后悔”都是来自这个范围。

　　We have a vast body of literature on consumer and financial decisions and the regrets associated with them-buyer's remorse², basically. 我们对消费者的财政决定有大量研究，他们的决定—也就是购买者的懊悔。

　　Then finally, it occurred to some researchers to step back and say, well okay, but overall, what do we regret most in life? 终于有研究者想到，那么人生中我们最后悔什么？

　　Here's what the answers turn out to look like. 让我们看看结果。

　　So top six regrets-the things we regret most in life: Number one by far, education. 33 percent of all of our regrets pertain³ to decisions we made about education. 六大遗憾—人生里我们最遗憾的事情：第一是教育。百分之三十三的后悔是来自对受教育的决定.

　　We wish we'd gotten more of it. We wish we'd taken better advantage of the education that we did have. 我们希望受更多的教育。更好地利用教育资源。

　　We wish we'd chosen to study a different topic. 或者学习另外一个专业。

　　Others very high on our list of regrets include career, romance, parenting, various decisions and choices about our sense of self and how we spend our leisure time-or actually more specifically, how we fail to spend our leisure time. 其他在遗憾单子上非常高排名的项目还有事业、爱情、子女教育、各种各样的决定和我们决定怎么度过闲暇时间的决定—或者确切地说，后悔我们怎么没好好利用闲暇时间。

　　The remaining regrets pertain to these things: finance, family issues unrelated to romance or parenting, health, friends, spirituality and community. 其他的遗憾还有这些：财政，家庭问题包括婚姻或子女教育、健康、朋友、精神世界和社区。

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