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Trisha's avatar

When making difficult decisions, instead of focusing on which one I'd be more excited for, I focus on which one I'd regret not doing. That allows me to size my opportunity cost and then I optimize for regret minimization, as opposed to happiness maximization -- especially since happiness is hard to measure, whereas we're a lot more tuned to negative emotions such as regret. Turns out it's an example of inversion!

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Unnati Agrawal's avatar

As someone who loves to engage in a lot of activities, reading about Pareto’s Principle definitely gave me a new perspective. I think Pareto’s also pairs really well with Inversion and am looking forward to leveraging both! Thanks for sharing Andrew!

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