When we’re dealing with regret and remorse it easy to let the feeling take over and lead us into hours of self-criticism, judgment and generally feeling crappy about it. But it’s worth finding a much more empowering and constructive way of dealing with it, so we can be less afraid of situations where we might make mistakes.

For me, the childhood phrase “you should know better” created a world where there was no such thing as an enjoyable learning curve.