Bertahan melewati kesulitan besar (bisnis, proyek kreatif, pelatihan) vs. menyerah saat menjadi sulit
Jika Anda bertindak
Bertahan melewati kesulitan besar dalam usaha jangka panjang
33%
Jika Anda tidak bertindak
Menyerah saat usaha menjadi sulit
67%
Persentase orang yang kemudian menyesali setiap pilihan. Diagram batang dan catatan lengkap ditampilkan di bawah.
Career
Terakhir ditinjau 2026-05-13
Kualitas bukti 3.75/5
Skor tinjauan delapan dimensi terhadap
rubrik kualitas
. Setiap dimensi dinilai 1–5.
D1 Verifikasi sumber
3/5
D2 Otoritas & independensi sumber
4/5
D3 Akurasi tingkat penyesalan
2/5
D4 Keterbandingan sumber
2/5
D5 Pola Gilovich
5/5
D6 Kualitas prosa
5/5
D7 Kelengkapan peringatan
5/5
D8 Kualitas sampel
4/5
Rata-rata3.75/5
Data proksi — tidak ada survei penyesalan langsung untuk keputusan ini. Tingkat diturunkan dari skor kepuasan dan data hambatan akses daripada pertanyaan yang langsung menanyakan tentang penyesalan. Lihat peringatan di bawah.
Penyesalan atas tindakan
Bertahan melewati kesulitan besar dalam usaha jangka panjang
33%
Penyesalan atas tindakan (hal-hal yang dilakukan, mis. bertahan) sekitar sepertiga dari penyesalan jangka panjang -- kira-kira separuh lebih jarang daripada penyesalan atas tidak bertindak (Pink, ~2:1). Tidak ada survei langsung tentang penyesalan mereka yang bertahan.
Orang dewasa yang bertahan melalui kesulitan besar dalam proyek jangka panjang, beberapa populasi
prospektif dan retrospektif, studi 1997-2007
Penyesalan atas kelambanan
Menyerah saat usaha menjadi sulit
67%
Penyesalan atas tidak bertindak (jalan yang tak ditempuh, mis. berhenti) sekitar dua pertiga dari penyesalan jangka panjang -- kira-kira dua kali lebih umum daripada penyesalan atas tindakan (Pink, ~2:1), dan selisihnya melebar seiring usia.
Orang dewasa secara global yang menyerah pada tujuan pribadi atau profesional yang signifikan
retrospektif, survei dikumpulkan 2020-2021
% menyesal dengan pilihan ini
Bertahan melewati kesulitan besar dalam usaha jangka panjangMenyerah saat usaha menjadi sulit
33%67%
inaction dominates — Tidak bertindak mendominasi — sebagian besar menyesali karena tidak bertindak.
Keputusan terkait
Keputusan yang serupa secara semantik — area yang sama, kompromi yang berbeda.
There is no survey that directly asks people whether they regret having persisted through a hard pursuit, nor one that asks a clean “did you give up too soon?” yes/no question. What the data does support is a directional asymmetry. Daniel Pink’s World Regret Survey, which collected more than 26,000 regrets from people in 134 countries, finds that regrets of inaction are about twice as prevalent as regrets of action in the long run — an approximate two-to-one split that widens with age. Quitting a difficult pursuit is structurally an inaction in the domain of continuation (a road not taken), while persisting is an action; so the regret of having quit tends to be the larger, more durable side. The rates shown here (action ~33%, inaction ~67%) are those action/inaction shares, not a measured “X% of persisters regret it” figure.
Roese and Summerville’s 2005 meta-analysis of 11 regret-ranking studies supports the same direction without supplying a ratio: regrets of inaction persist longer than regrets of action, and the biggest life-regret domains are education and career. Action regrets — the cost of persisting through difficulty that ends in failure — are intense in the immediate aftermath but fade as people rationalize and integrate the experience. The counterfactual of having given up remains available as a road not taken and becomes more vivid as opportunities close. Separately, Duckworth, Peterson, Matthews, and Kelly’s 2007 grit research across six populations found that perseverance predicts educational attainment, military retention, and competitive achievement above and beyond IQ and conscientiousness (grit accounted for about 4% of the variance in success outcomes) — evidence that sustained effort tends to pay off, not a regret measure.
The main caveat is the sunk-cost problem. The inaction-dominates asymmetry is a population-level pattern across all regrets; it does not distinguish between someone who rationally exited a genuinely failing effort and someone who gave up on something that would have succeeded with more time. Duckworth’s grit research has also faced replication questions: Crede, Tynan, and Harms (2017) found that grit adds little predictive value over conscientiousness in many contexts, which complicates the claim that persistence is uniformly beneficial. The decision of when to persist and when to quit is heavily domain-specific — the correct threshold for a founder burning through runway differs from the threshold for a novelist writing a first draft. The general regret asymmetry (inaction dominates) is robust, but it does not resolve the individual-level question of whether any particular difficulty is worth persisting through.
Sumber: tindakan
Buku besar klaim
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[1]Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Duckworth, Peterson, Matthews and Kelly 2007) — Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals
Terverifikasi
↗ 1 other entry
Telaah sejawat
Grit (perseverance and passion for long-term goals) accounted for an average of 4% of the variance in success outcomes across six studies; the paper measures persistence as a predictor of achievement and contains no measure of regret about having persisted
Kutipan
“"Defined as perseverance and passion for long-term goals, grit accounted for an average of 4% of the variance in success outcomes, including educational attainment among 2 samples of adults (N=1,545 and N=690), grade point average among Ivy League undergraduates (N=138), retention in 2 classes of United States Military Academy, West Point, cadets (N=1,218 and N=1,308), and ranking in the National Spelling Bee (N=175). Grit did not relate positively to IQ but was highly correlated with Big Five Conscientiousness. Grit nonetheless demonstrated incremental predictive validity of success measures over and beyond IQ and conscientiousness."
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Data sumber dari
2007-06-01
Diakses
2026-05-13
Verifikasi
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Perhitungan
Duckworth et al. (2007) is the foundational grit paper across six studies (n=1,545 in the primary adult sample). It establishes that perseverance predicts achievement above IQ and conscientiousness, but it contains no regret measure. No published survey directly asks high-persistence adults "do you regret having persisted?", so the action-side rate is not a directly measured persist-regret figure. It is relabeled here as the share of regrets that are regrets of action ("things done"), which Pink's World Regret Survey finds to be roughly half as common as regrets of inaction in the long run -- about a third of the action/inaction split (proxy_only). This paper is cited as peer-reviewed evidence that sustained effort predicts better outcomes, which is why persistence-regret is the smaller side.
[2]Daniel H. Pink (worldregretsurvey.com) — The World Regret Survey
Terverifikasi
Studi primer
Regrets of action are roughly half as prevalent as regrets of inaction in the long run; boldness regrets -- wishing one had taken a chance or persisted -- are overwhelmingly inaction regrets, so regret for having persisted (an action) is the smaller side
Kutipan
“"The World Regret Survey collected more than 26,000 regrets from people in 134 countries. Of the four core regret categories (foundation, boldness, moral, connection), connection regrets were the largest. Boldness regrets -- 'if only I'd taken the chance' -- usually take the form of inaction. Inaction regrets are, in general, about twice as prevalent as action regrets, and that gap widens with age: in one's 20s the two are roughly equal, but by the 50s and beyond inaction regrets dominate. The near-absence of an 'I wish I had persisted less' regret is consistent with this pattern -- regrets of having done something (persisting) are the smaller share."
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Data sumber dari
2021-01-01
Diakses
2026-05-13
Verifikasi
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Perhitungan
Daniel Pink's World Regret Survey (n=26,000+, 134 countries). Pink's headline finding is that inaction regrets are about twice as prevalent as action regrets in the long run -- an approximate 2:1 split, i.e. roughly one third of regrets are regrets of action and two thirds are regrets of inaction. The survey does not publish a per-category percentage and does not report a "I persisted and regret it" rate, so no precise persist-regret figure exists. The action side is relabeled to this directional ~1/3 share of the action/inaction split (proxy_only); it carries substantially less regret than the inaction (quit) side because persisting is an action and boldness regrets are inaction-form (wishing one had persisted more).
Sumber: tidak bertindak
Buku besar klaim
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1/2 sumber diverifikasi secara independen kata demi kata terhadap sumber terkutip
[1]Daniel H. Pink (worldregretsurvey.com) — The World Regret Survey
Studi primer
Inaction regrets -- including boldness regrets such as 'if only I had taken the chance' or persisted -- are about twice as prevalent as action regrets in the long run, an approximate 2:1 split, meaning roughly two thirds of long-run regrets are regrets of inaction
Kutipan
“"The World Regret Survey collected more than 26,000 regrets from people in 134 countries. Boldness regrets -- 'if only I'd taken the chance' -- usually take the form of inaction. Inaction regrets are, in general, about twice as prevalent as action regrets. The gap widens with age: in one's 20s regrets of action and inaction are roughly equal, but by the 50s, 60s and 70s the inaction regrets take over. Giving up on a pursuit that becomes difficult is structurally an inaction in the domain of continuation, which is why the road-not-taken regret of having quit tends to outlast the regret of having persisted."
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Data sumber dari
2021-01-01
Diakses
2026-05-13
Perhitungan
World Regret Survey (n=26,000+, 134 countries). Pink reports that inaction regrets are about twice as prevalent as action regrets in the long run -- an approximate 2:1 split, i.e. roughly two thirds of long-run regrets are regrets of inaction. The survey does not publish a prompted "X% gave up too soon" item, so there is no directly measured quit-regret rate; the inaction side is relabeled to this directional ~2/3 inaction share of the action/inaction split (proxy_only). The ratio is the citable finding (action ~1/3, inaction ~2/3), not a survey-specific "gave up too soon" percentage.
[2]Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (Roese and Summerville 2005) — What We Regret Most ... and Why
Terverifikasi
↗ 13 other entries
Telaah sejawat
Regrets of inaction persist longer than regrets of action; a meta-analysis of 11 regret-ranking studies found the six biggest life regrets center (in descending order) on education, career, romance, parenting, the self, and leisure
Kutipan
“"A meta-analysis of 11 regret ranking studies revealed that the top six biggest regrets in life center on (in descending order) education, career, romance, parenting, the self, and leisure." ... "Regrets of inaction ('Should have asked her out,' 'Should have become a dentist') are more psychologically 'open,' more imaginatively boundless," and regrets of inaction persist longer than regrets of action.
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Data sumber dari
2005-01-01
Diakses
2026-05-13
Verifikasi
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Perhitungan
Roese and Summerville (2005, PMC2394712), "What We Regret Most ... and Why," is a meta-analysis of 11 regret-ranking studies. The paper's finding cited here is qualitative: regrets of inaction persist longer than regrets of action, and the biggest life-regret domains are education and career. The paper does NOT state a "2.5:1" ratio (the earlier excerpt's figure was unsupported and has been removed); its 11-study meta-analysis ranked regret by life domain, not by an inaction-to-action ratio. It does not provide an inaction-side rate; the directional ~2:1 prevalence figure comes from Pink's World Regret Survey. This source is peer-reviewed corroboration of the directional prediction: quitting (an inaction in the continuation domain) generates more lasting regret than persisting through difficulty.
Catatan
Tidak ada sisi yang memiliki survei berbingkai-penyesalan langsung, sehingga entri ini diterbitkan sebagai proxy_only. Tidak ada survei terpublikasi yang menanyakan orang dewasa yang gigih "apakah Anda menyesal telah bertahan?" dan World Regret Survey tidak menjalankan item ya/tidak terarah "saya menyerah terlalu cepat". Angka yang ditampilkan (tindakan ~33%, tidak bertindak ~67%) BUKAN tingkat penyesalan khusus-survei untuk keputusan ini; itu adalah PROPORSI tindakan/tidak-bertindak dari penyesalan jangka panjang yang tersirat dari temuan World Regret Survey milik Daniel Pink bahwa penyesalan atas tidak bertindak kira-kira dua kali lebih lazim daripada penyesalan atas tindakan (pembagian sekitar 2:1). Versi entri ini sebelumnya mengutip angka "~12% dari mereka yang bertahan menyesalinya" dan angka "43% menyerah terlalu cepat"; keduanya tidak didukung oleh sumbernya dan telah dihapus. Survei Pink mengandalkan peserta yang memilih sendiri yang mungkin tidak representatif terhadap populasi global. Kekeliruan biaya hangus menciptakan komplikasi nyata: sebagian orang yang "bertahan" secara rasional bertahan melewati kesulitan sementara, sementara yang lain secara irasional menolak memotong kerugian pada usaha yang benar-benar gagal. Kualitas keputusan sangat bergantung pada domain (bisnis tahap awal vs. karier mapan vs. proyek kreatif), keadaan individu (landasan finansial, kesehatan, biaya peluang), dan sifat spesifik kesulitannya. Tingkat penyesalan umum tidak dapat menangkap heterogenitas ini. Riset grit juga menghadapi tantangan replikasi: Lucas et al. (2015) dan Credé et al. (2017) menemukan bahwa grit menambah sedikit daya prediksi di luar kehati-hatian (conscientiousness) dalam beberapa konteks, yang menyanggah klaim bahwa kegigihan secara seragam menghasilkan hasil lebih baik. Versi dewasa dari keputusan ini (yang dibahas di sini) berbeda dari pasangan letting-child-quit-activity-vs-finishing, yang membahas keputusan orang tua tentang komitmen terstruktur anak-anak.
