What Are Your Regrets? Sample Interview Answers & Tips Article

If you look back at your life, what are your regrets?

The way you answer this question tells three important things about you:

• Are you stuck in the past or live in the present?
• Are you too complaining? Or
• Do you take lessons and move on?

Before we begin to answer this question, let me give you a tip and this tip is not just to answer this question but to make sure that you don’t get stuck in this cycle of regrets. If I were to answer this question, I would say something like,
Sample Answer 1:
Well, I think, I have made a lot of mistakes in life but I don’t have any regrets as such because I always try to take lessons from my mistakes and not repeat them. Regrets arise when you are stuck in the past and rather than focusing on the learning, you focus on what went wrong.

But understand one thing:
You will be able to deliver this answer confidently only and only if over the time you change the way you think about yours or someone else’s mistakes. Otherwise, your words and body language won’t support each other.

If you think, you can’t deliver this answer confidently, you can just say,
Sample Answer 2:
Well, I have learnt a lot of things with time and experience & now I prefer to take lessons from things and move on. The only regret I have is, how good it could have been, if I had understood these things a little early in life.