Do we learn from our mistakes? or do we spend rest of our life, regretting?

As long as we are alive, we make mistakes. However, when you LEARN from these mistakes...they become a lesson. Life is about learning lessons, and not regretting. You cannot change the past...but you can control what you do now and in the futire...move forward and take your lessons with you

It really depends on the person. I try to learn from every experience I face, whether is was good or bad. Some people feel regret more than others. Personally, I don't regret much. I do feel remorse for decisions I have made but I have learnt to move on from them and take every lesson I can from them. If I didn't make the mistake then, chances are I would make it in the future and I am grateful I know have more knowledge and experience. It isn't good to not acknowledge our mistakes, which can happen sometimes if people try to hard to not feel regret. This just leads us to making the same mistake again. But we have to accept that the past is in the past. All we can do now is fix any damage the best we can and move on knowing better.

Well only by learning - about your own process and sometimes learning takes a long time. You have to peel off the layers of misinformation inside in order to dislodge the faulty thinking. Some learnig has taken me forty years - I think the trick is to love the learning of itself adn therefore celebrate every centimetre gained back for yourself and every centimetre of 'oughts' 'shoulds' and introjected values that bite the dust.

Regrets to meseem fear based and belong somewhere other than now - If you decide to live in this moment and get the most amount of learning you can from past experience to fit you for the next encounter so you don't make the same mistakes just different ones then you should be motoring on - learn to love your mistakes and your defences as teaching tools. It isn't easy but I do think it is worth it rather than living in fear.

Life is all about making decisions.......right and wrong! The best way to get past it is to realize that it is in the past,can't be changed and to not do it again! One has to forgive ones' self,and then go on! If it was such a decision that it will affect their life forever,then finding ways to combat what will happen is about all one can do! Since it can't be changed,everyone involved with the decision needs an apology and then the assurance that you'll do what can be done to go on the best way possible! I made the decision to marry,and stay with,a man who did irreparable damage to my kids by being physically and verbally abusive to them all their lives,which in the end I feel was some what responsible for my sons' suicide! How do you get over that? I apologized to each of my kids when they got old enough,told them I couldn't change it,but that I'd be there when they need me,assured them they weren't stupid and that we'd just have to go on,knowing that it was over and we'd survived and we wouldn't be like that to others! Acceptance and forgiveness are the two big things we need to learn to do of ourselves in this day and age,and it really isn't as hard as believed! We all make mistakes,some BIG,others not so much! Forgive and go on,not making that mistake again!

You can't necessarily avoid making the wrong decision at times, but you can choose to learn from it and not regret it. I find that regret is a waste of time and energy. Accept that it sucks and move on.

There is no learning without making errors............... remember ya first cycling lessons...... its only after doing a mistake ya can take right decisions..... but tat doesn mean ya've to make mistakes knowingly...... if mistake commited is of a serious nature den s regret'll be longer........ collection of ya mistakes are called experiments n observations made from dem are called experience... tat adds strength n dimension to ya character ....... see tat ya don've many regrets in life....or jus one serious regret....

Live and learn is the motto.

There is no use in regretting or living with guilt.

Every mistake we make makes us more experienced and knowledgeable for our future.

Move forward, leave the past behind where it belongs.

yes we learn from our mistakes .we can pray to lord to regret from making wrong desions.Lord will help you to make excellent decisions through out your life.

we do learn frm our mistakes..ur decisions r vry close to ur heart if u fell some pain after making a decision thn it's a wrong one if u feel all happy aftr a decision thn its a right one..the only way according to u to make a right decision is u must feel vry happy aftr doing it..

Record your mitakes and go through it once in a week, you will slowly stop doing the same mistake.