E130: The Real Trick To Long Term Motivation: Daniel Pink

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Pink is the best-selling author of books that show the hidden ways to motivate yourself and those around you. He’s the man behind Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, To Sell Is Human and Free Agent Nation. His new book is all about The Power of Regret.

Daniel was still in his 20s when he’d risen to be the chief speechwriter to the Vice President of the United States, but he walked away from it all with no idea what he wanted to do next. He decided to bring his wisdom to all of us with his best-selling books.

Do you think regret is bad? Wrong. In his new book, Daniel shows how we all need regrets in our lives to guide us through how to bounce back from our mistakes, as well as appreciate our highs. This unconventional view might prove to be exactly what you need.

Topics:

Where do your skills come from?
How to be consistently motivated
Manifestation
How to keep people motivated
How to fuel purpose
The skill of sales
The secret to pitching
The type of sleeper you are
The Power of Regret
Counterfactual Thinking
Me & Daniel: Sharing our regrets
The power of experimentation and failure
The last guest’s question

Daniel:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Regret-Looking-Backward-Forward

https://twitter.com/DanielPink

https://www.instagram.com/danielpink

Sponsors:

Huel - https://my.huel.com/Steven

Craftd - https://bit.ly/3JKOPFx

Transcript

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0:00.0	Could you do me a quick favor if you're listening to this? Please hit the follow or subscribe button.
0:03.4	It helps more than you know.
0:04.6	And we invite subscribers in every month to watch the showing person.
0:07.4	No one ever teaches us how to deal with negative emotions.
0:10.5	That's the big problem, I think.
0:12.5	I've watched Daniel Pink's videos as a way to inspire me for years.
0:18.1	The world is littered with people who have a decent amount of anate talent who didn't put in work.
0:23.5	Here's the thing about us human beings.
0:26.1	We stink at solving our own problems.
0:27.8	We fear that when we share our stakes, our vulnerabilities, our regrets, people will think less of us.
0:33.2	The fact that those regrets stuck with me for 10 years, that's telling me something.
0:39.1	Real courage is staring your regrets in the eye and doing something about them.
0:42.9	We are on this planet for a vanishingly small amount of time and you're not using that time wisely.
0:48.0	The best way to improve is to...
0:51.6	So without further ado, I'm Stephen Bartlett and this is the Dyer of a CEO.
0:56.3	I hope nobody's listening.
0:57.8	But if you are, then please keep this yourself.
1:00.2	Daniel, yes.
1:08.8	You've lived a really remarkable life.
1:12.0	And obviously the most remarkable thing that from my perspective that I've seen from your...
1:17.9	I don't know, the last 20 years of your life is...
1:20.0	You became a person who's really remarkably good at communicating and understanding complex ideas
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