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The Regret Meter

Do you look?

The Regret Meter

A screen in a clinic will tell you one number: how much you'll regret your decision about having children, ten years from now. Not whether you'll be happy. Just how much of the other life you'll be mourning. It's free, it's accurate, and you can only look once.

Do you look?

Then ask

  • What number would change what you do this year?
  • Who would you not tell that you'd looked?
  • What are you already guessing the number is?

The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.

More at this level

  1. The Better Life, Plugged In
  2. The Voice That Stays
  3. The Promise You'd Take Back
  4. The Teleporter
  5. Seven Seats
  6. Before You Knew Who You'd Be
  7. Name the Other One
  8. The Last Conversation