9 Things Entrepreneurs Should Stop Feeling So Guilty About

Guilt serves an important purpose. Feelings of guilt can drive us to do better in the future or avoid causing harm to ourselves and others.

Just as the pain of lifting weights can make us stronger, the pain of guilt can lead us to make better decisions.

Living a life completely free of guilt is not only sociopathic, it’s dangerous and harmful.

However, how we compartmentalize our guilt is a critical part of life.

Guilt is inevitable, but how we handle it can dictate whether we use it as growth or allow it to snowball our negative actions and destroy our peace of mind.

“Unresolved guilt is like having a snooze alarm in your head that won’t shut off. — Guy Winch phD (source)

One study titled The Weight of a Guilty Conscience: Subjective Body Weight as an Embodiment of Guilt hypothesized a physical connection to a feeling of “weight” and guilt. (source)

The study also argued that that weight isn’t always a driver of better future actions.

One finding showed that when performing a task in which a test subject had previously associated with guilt (they had fallen short of their own expectations previously), “those who recalled unethical memories…perceived the physical…