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Regret, the Historian’s Fallacy, and Why “Hindsight” Is a Trick

MEDIA LINKS Website: delvepsych.com Instagram: @delvepsychchicago YouTube: ⁠   / @delvepsych20   Substack: ⁠https://delvepsych.substack.com/⁠ Hosts Ali McGarel Adam W. Fominaya OVERVIEW OF BIG IDEAS Ali and Adam dig into regret as something many people experience as “an emotion,” while Adam argues it’s better understood as a cognitive process: a backward-looking judgment that you “should have chosen differently” because you dislike the outcome. They frame this as the historian’s fallacy in everyday life: importing today’s knowledge, perspective, and consequences into the past self, then condemning that past self for not having information it literally couldn’t have had. A key move is separating the thought-structure (“I should’ve known”) from the actual emotions happening now (shame, embarrassment, disappointment, sorrow, worry). Regret-talk can become a dodge that blocks the real work: repairing, grieving, apologizing, tolerating uncertainty, or recommitting to values. They also critique outcome-obsessed living (“ends justify the means”) and nudge toward a process-oriented stance: less fixated on getting the perfect outcome, more focused on living a coherent way, even when life hands you lemons. The episode stays playful with time-travel riffs (and the chaos of trying to “fix” timelines), then pivots into a deeper point: the past and future only exist as representations in the brain right now. Memory is fallible and gets subtly rewritten with recall, so even “hindsight” isn’t a pristine window. BREAKDOWN OF SEGMENTS Intro, how to support the podcast by sharing it, and a reminder of Delve services plus consultation info and Substack. What regret is (and isn’t): cognitive process vs emotion; why people cling to regret; why it can keep you stuck. Historian’s fallacy explained with a concrete example (the “gift that offended someone” scenario) and the idea that “I should have known” often smuggles in magical thinking. Shifting from regret to present-tense emotions and present-tense actions: relational repair, naming worry, handling shame, dealing with consequences. Process-oriented living vs outcome fixation; why “bad outcomes” and discomfort are part of growth rather than proof you failed. Time travel as metaphor: trying to retroactively fix the past often makes things haywire; levity as an antidote to rumination. The present-moment thesis: memory and future-plans live in current neural hardware; perception of the past changes as you change; “hindsight is 50/50.” Closing recap and callouts to Delve’s website and Substack. AI RECOMMENDED REFERENCES (APA) Fischer, D. H. (1970). Historians’ fallacies: Toward a logic of historical thought. Harper & Row. Harrington, A. (2019). Mind fixers: Psychiatry’s troubled search for the biology of mental illness. W. W. Norton & Company. Nader, K., Schafe, G. E., & LeDoux, J. E. (2000). Fear memories require protein synthesis in the amygdala for reconsolidation after retrieval. Nature, 406, 722–726. ⁠https://doi.org/10.1038/35021052⁠ Roese, N. J., & Vohs, K. D. (2012). Hindsight bias. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7(5), 411–426. ⁠https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691612454...