228 - The Power of Regret - Daniel H. Pink

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🗓️ 19 March 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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NO REGRETS - Our guest in this episode of the You Are Not So Smart podcast is Daniel Pink, the five-time NYT Bestselling author of When and To Sell is Human and Drive and A Whole New Mind. His new book is The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward, a rebuke of the concept of "no regrets" and exploration of the benefits of regret and how to harness them.Patreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart

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0:00.5	You're performing and I think what you're performing is courage.
0:08.5	But that's false courage.
0:31.0	Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.
0:40.0	Episode 228.
1:01.0	The indomitable, incomparable, water-soluble, Daniel Pink.
1:06.0	How are you?
1:09.0	The power of regret.
1:11.0	I tweeted out earlier today that I was talking to you.
1:14.0	I said I really liked the thesis.
1:16.0	I just checked it a second ago and someone was like,
1:18.0	what do you mean?
1:19.0	Like, regret stupid.
1:20.0	Let me ask, what inspired you to even jump into this and stir things up?
1:24.0	Well, because the people like you just mentioned
1:27.0	don't know what they're talking about.
1:29.0	And it started off in some way personal and that I had regrets my own
1:36.0	and I wanted to reckon with.
1:37.0	But what I found is that this philosophy of no regrets is wrong.
1:42.0	I don't know what wrong philosophically or morally,
1:45.0	but it's wrong as a matter of science.
1:47.0	There's 60 years of science saying that everybody has regrets.
1:50.0	That regret is one of the most common emotions that we have.
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