I guess my first question is why of all the things that you could write about and you

told me you've got some Google file of all these book ideas you have, why did you have

to write a book about regret?

Because I was dealing with some regrets of my own.

I'm at a point in my life where I suddenly looked up and I have mileage on me, which is

kind of shocking.

But I also have some mileage ahead of me and I want to be able to use it well and when

I look backward, I realize that I had some problems with my own.

And what I found is that despite what exactly what you're talking about, this idea that

we have in culture that, oh, never talking about regrets, regrets are bad.

They make you weak, no regrets, no regrets, forward thinking positive.

That when I talk to people about my regrets, they leaned in.

They were interested and they wanted to share theirs.

And so I'm so glad you pointed that out because I didn't go with a more elliptical sidedoor

title.

I wanted to put that word regret in big blue letters on the cover to challenge people

and try to reclaim this word because regret is our most transformative motion if we

tweet it right now.

In the book you talk about various types of regret.

What were the types of regret that inspired you to write this book?

You said you had your regrets there.

Yeah, well, I mean, I had, so the, well, it was really reckoning with these regrets.

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