4 kinds of regret -- and what they teach you about yourself | Daniel H. Pink

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🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Regret is one of our most powerful emotions -- and also one of the most misunderstood. Over the past two years, author Daniel H. Pink has collected a trove of more than 16,000 regrets from people in 105 countries in an effort to better understand this mysterious emotion. He shares the key patterns that emerged (it all boils down to the same four core regrets, he says) and explains how to transform your own regrets in order to create the life you've always wanted to live. (This talk and conversation, hosted by TED current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers, was part of an exclusive TED Membership event. Visit ted.com/membership to become a TED Member.)

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	It's Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:13.2	So often we talk about regret as something we want to avoid.
0:16.9	No regrets, the saying goes.
0:19.2	But author Daniel Pink says that misses a huge opportunity to use regret as a teacher.
0:25.3	In his 2022 Ted Membership Archive Conversation, he takes questions from Ted Current Affairs
0:30.8	Curator Whitney Pennington Rogers and later some special audience participation about the
0:36.1	four most common types of regrets, how they teach us about the good life, and how we
0:41.0	can all look closely at our regrets to show us a fulfilling path forward.
0:46.8	Hear him after the break.
0:51.1	Support for Ted Talks Daily comes from Airbnb.
0:53.8	Maybe you've stayed in an Airbnb before and thought to yourself, maybe my place could
0:57.6	be an Airbnb.
0:58.8	Perhaps your housemates going to move out and you're thinking about what to do with that
1:02.6	space.
1:03.6	That extra room could be an Airbnb.
1:06.5	Whether you could use a little extra money to cover some bills or for something a little
1:10.2	more fun, your extra room or extra space might be worth more than you think.
1:15.4	And not how much at Airbnb.co.uk-host.
1:21.0	Let's talk about regret.
1:23.4	It is to my mind our most misunderstood emotion.
1:27.6	And so I decided to spend a couple of years studying it.
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