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Directionally Challenged

Introducing: From A Slight Change of Plans: The Value of Regret with Daniel Pink

Directionally Challenged

Kayla Ewell

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.94.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

We’re sharing a special episode from another podcast, A Slight Change of Plans, from Pushkin

Industries. In this preview, bestselling author Daniel Pink talks about using a typically negative

emotion – regret – as a force for good in our lives. Hear the full episode, and more from A Slight

Change of Plans, at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/scp5?sid=challenged.



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0:00.0

Hey, listeners! Today we're excited to bring you a preview of another podcast we enjoy, one that will help you better navigate the changes in your own life.

0:07.8

It's called a slight change of plans.

0:10.2

On a slight change of plans, Dr. Maya Shunger, a cognitive scientist who is an expert on human behavior, examines who we are and who we become in the face of a big change.

0:19.8

Maya has intimate conversations with people who have faced incredible transformations, people like Casey Musgraves and Amanda Knox,

0:26.6

as well as everyday inspirations like Kristi Warren, a first responder who, after enduring psychological trauma from helping others in emergencies, bravely sought out help for herself.

0:36.6

You know that we're all about asking ourselves the big life questions and understanding how change, well, changes us.

0:43.6

So we think you'll find the stories on a slight change of plans to be relatable.

0:47.6

In this preview, Maya sits down with bestselling author Daniel Pink to talk about a feeling so many of us have experienced, regret.

0:55.6

Dan believes that negative emotions, you know, the ones we're trying to bury deep down and pretend don't exist, can actually be a force for good in our lives.

1:04.6

He thinks that we can take the feeling of regret and reframe it as an instructive emotion, one that can help us live happier, more fulfilling lives.

1:12.6

We hope you enjoy Maya and Dan's conversation as much as we have. You can hear the full episode and more from a slight change of plans wherever you get your podcasts.

1:21.6

I don't think we've done a very good job of equipping people with how to deal with negative emotions.

1:36.6

I think at some level we've sold them a bill of goods about the need to be positive all the time.

1:40.6

And what we should be doing is saying, yeah, have lots of positive emotions. They make life fantastic.

1:45.6

But you're going to have some negative emotions and these negative emotions are adaptive. They're functional if you know how to treat them.

1:51.6

That's bestselling author, Dan Pink, who believes that negative emotions can be a force for good in our lives.

1:58.6

Dan is most interested in the emotion of regret, which is the focus of his book, The Power of Regret, how looking backward moves us forward.

2:07.6

But it took Dan a while to figure out why regret was such a valuable emotion.

2:12.6

You know, reading through all these regrets every day here in my office, why was I not more bummed out?

2:18.6

I got these people opening up their hearts and telling me the mistakes that they made and how terrible they feel about it.

2:23.6

Why did they not bring me down? And I finally over time realized that when people tell you what they regret the most, they're telling you what they value the most.

2:32.6

On today's episode, how to transform our relationship with regret to live happier and more fulfilling lives.

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