We feel more sorrow over not partying than not working

A study has concluded that in the short run, we are glad for having deprived ourselves of pleasure to work, while in long-term, we regret not working less and playing more. As the saying goes, "No one ever went to a death-bed saying, 'I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'"

In another experiment, students who'd just come back from their break were polled. The ones who'd partied it up regretted their actions -- while those who studied were virtuously smug. But when asked to recall the spring break from the previous year, suddenly more students regretted their choice not to party. When alumni were asked to recall their spring breaks of 40 years ago, the results were even starker: Those who hadn't been doing beer shots out of a barber's chair were striken with remorse.

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