This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

Hello, everybody. How we doing? What do you regret the most? What are the things you've done or failed to do that have caused you the most regret? This is a fascinating, although painful thing to think about. You might be tempted, in fact, to either not think about it or to go all the way in the other direction and to wallow in

shame. That's usually the direction I go in. Neither direction, as you might imagine, is a winning

strategy. What you want to do is lean in and learn. Again, that's not avoiding and it's not

wallowing. It's a fruitful middle path. Today we're going to talk to a really smart

writer, a best-selling author, who has written a whole book about how you can harness your

regrets in a way that will improve your performance, sharpen your decision-making, and add

meaning to your life. He's got tons and tons of thoughtful, workable strategies for not only

learning from your past

decisions, but also for minimizing regrets going forward.

Daniel Pink is the author of seven bestselling nonfiction books.

His latest is called The Power of Regret.

That's the one we're going to talk about today.

In this conversation, we talk about the myth of the no regrets philosophy,

what a regret actually is, the very real benefits of regret, the four core regrets that people

tend to have, tools for dealing with regrets, including two tools, Daniel calls undoing and

at leasting, the importance of disclosure, in other words, talking or writing about your regrets,

how to create a failure resume, the regret optimization framework, and much more.

Super quick, right before we dive in here, I just want to remind you to sign up for my new meditation app.

It's called 10% with Dan Harris.

You can get the app by going to Danharris.com.

There's a free 14-day trial if you want to try before you buy.

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