383: Learning from mistakes, FOMO, & how to overcome fears of awkwardness | NYT bestselling author Daniel Pink

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🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Daniel Pink: “The way we talk to ourselves is cruel. Most of us would never talk to another human being the way we talk to ourselves.” Pink, a five-time New York Times bestselling author, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss what we're getting wrong about regrets, plus: - Why a "no regrets" philosophy is not a good way to live (~00:19) - How to properly deal with regrets in a healthy way (~11:03) - How to make negative emotions less menacing (~12:05) - Why you should practice referring to yourself in the third person (~13:04) - How to overcome fears of awkwardness (~27:23) Referenced in the episode: - Pink's book, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward. - Research from Northwestern in 2011 on common regrets in the U.S. population. - Research on self-distancing and talking to yourself in the third person. - Read more about the Duke regret lottery experiment. - mbg Podast episode #346, with Esther Perel. Enjoy this episode sponsored by Manitoba Harvest! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
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0:43.6	performance is not guaranteed. Daniel Pink's books have helped readers and organizations
0:51.4	around the world rethink how they live and operate. He is the author of The New York Times
0:56.7	Best Sellers, a whole new mind, drive to sell his human and when. His books have sold
1:03.5	millions of copies that have been translated into 42 languages. And today he's here to chat about
1:10.4	his latest bestseller titled The Power of Regret. How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward.
1:17.7	Dan, welcome. Thank you for having me. Good to be here with you Jason. Love your work and love
1:25.7	this book and what I first saw the title The Power of Regret. Pretty provocative. I held
1:31.2	Looking Backward Moves Us Forward. And so I'll start with there are a couple of big questions.
1:36.7	You know, first off, what have we been getting wrong about Regret? Well, what we've been getting
1:42.5	wrong is the idea that when we experience Regret, there's something broken with us that it's a
1:48.2	sign of weakness that when we experience Regret that it makes us, it hurts us in some ways. It makes
1:54.4	us weaker and that we should always be positive and that we should always look forward. And that's
1:58.5	just foolish. It's not what science tells us. Science tells us that Regret is one of the most
2:03.2	common emotions that human beings have. It is arguably the most, it's most ubiquitous, negative
2:08.3	emotion that we have. It's one of the most ubiquitous emotions we have at many times. And you have
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