459: How to Use Regret as a Pathway to Your Best Life | Daniel Pink
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 24 February 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
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Daniel Pink’s (IG: @danielpink) books have helped readers and organizations around the world rethink how they live and operate. He’s a New York Times bestselling author and his books have sold millions of copies, been translated into forty-two languages, and have won multiple awards.
Today we’re discussing Dan’s new book, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward.
We all have regrets, they’re a universal and healthy part of being human. Dan’s here to explain how regret works, which can help us make smarter decisions, perform better at work & school, and bring greater meaning to our lives.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The catalyzing event that had Dan thinking about his own regrets
- Everybody has regrets
- The 4 core regrets
- Regrets of action and regrets of inaction
- Open door regrets vs. closed door regrets
- Anticipating your regrets
- Who makes better decisions... maximizers or satisficers?
- Opportunity and obligation
- Reframing a regret
- Disclosing your regrets
- Dan's collection of 16,000 regrets
- What are feelings for?
- Extracting a lesson from your regret
- You’re not going to regret reaching out
- Don’t wait till the end of your life to think about regrets
- What regret teaches us
- How to move past a moral breach
- Creating a positive legacy from negative regrets
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | I don't want people to wait till the end of their, |
| 0:04.8 | the final days of their life to think about their regrets. |
| 0:07.6 | Because as you're, exactly as you said before, |
| 0:10.4 | you know, if you don't have that much mileage ahead of you, |
| 0:13.0 | you can't really do anything about them. |
| 0:14.6 | And so what I want is us for us to reckon with them |
| 0:19.1 | with our brains earlier in our lives, |
| 0:21.8 | recognize that they're part of the human experience |
| 0:24.2 | and use them to leave the rest of our lives |
| 0:27.2 | in a more fruitful way. |
| 0:28.5 | Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health podcast, episode 459. |
| 0:38.2 | I'm Jesse Chapis and I'm here to take your help to the next level. |
| 0:41.9 | Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations |
| 0:44.2 | with health and wellness leaders from around the world. |
| 0:46.8 | This week I'm chatting with Daniel Pink. |
| 0:48.7 | Dan's books have helped readers and organizations |
| 0:51.0 | around the world rethink how they live and operate. |
| 0:53.8 | He's a New York Times bestselling author |
| 0:55.9 | and his books have sold millions of copies, |
| 0:58.2 | been translated into 42 languages |
| 1:00.8 | and have won multiple awards. |
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