Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.

This quote is from author and "Wrongologist" Kathryn Schulz's 2011 TED Talk about the benefits of regret. In this quote, Schulz is talking about research on the things that people regret the most. Here is the full quote.

So top six regrets -- the things we regret most in life: Number one by far, education. 33 percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education. We wish we'd gotten more of it. We wish we'd taken better advantage of the education that we did have. We wish we'd chosen to study a different topic. Others very high on our list of regrets include career, romance, parenting, various decisions and choices about our sense of self and how we spend our leisure time.

Watch the full TED Talk here: Kathryn Schulz - Don't Regret Regret

“Don’t Regret Regret.” TEDSalon NY2011. Nov. 2011. Conference Presentation.