Listener Favorites: Dan Pink | The Power of Regret

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Welcome to another episode of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast. In this episode, we're thrilled to have a conversation with Dan Pink. Dan is known for his insightful books, five of which are New York Times bestsellers, and his unique perspectives on motivation and human behavior.

In this enlightening conversation, Dan Pink shares his wisdom on the power of regret and how looking backward can move us forward. He discusses his latest book, "The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward," which debuted at No.3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction bestseller list in February 2022.

Pink delves into the scientific secrets of perfect timing and the importance of understanding our emotional states. He also discusses the concept of intrinsic motivation and its three key elements. This episode is a treasure trove of knowledge, offering listeners the chance to learn from Pink's experiences and insights.

Tune in to this episode of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast for an extraordinary exploration of these themes. You can find the Unmistakable Creative Podcast on all major podcast platforms. Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review!

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0:00.0	As you probably notice, this month, we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting
0:04.6	some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical
0:09.4	strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, all aimed at helping you achieve
0:14.4	personal and professional fulfillment. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll not only get
0:18.5	recaps of the key ideas in each interview, but at the end of the series, you'll receive our free Life of Purpose ebook.
0:24.7	What you have to do is go to UnmistakableCreative.com slash LifePurpose.
0:28.1	Again, that's UnmistakableCreative.com slash Life Purpose.
0:32.2	The most important thing to understand is that regret it is an emotion, and it's a negative emotion.
0:36.1	It's a motion that makes us feel bad. But it requires incredible cognitive dexterity because you're traveling in time,
0:42.1	you're negating what really happens, you're traveling back to the present and you're seeing a
0:46.7	reconfigured present based on the decisions you made in the reconfigured past. This is why five-year-olds
0:51.3	can't experience regret. It's why sociopaths don't experience regret.
0:56.2	It's why people with brain damage don't experience regret.
0:59.0	What's more?
0:59.5	It's our most common negative emotion.
1:02.1	And when you pair those two things together, A, it's aversive.
1:06.1	It makes us feel bad.
1:07.4	B, it's ubiquitous.
1:08.8	It's everywhere.
1:10.0	That's a puzzle, right? We're supposed to be
1:12.7	pleasure seekers. What's going on here? We have one of our most common emotions is one we don't like.
1:18.5	Why? Why? Why? And to me, the answer to that is relatively simple and straightforward,
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