The Power of Regret Part One
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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🗓️ 31 December 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Regrets are a universal and healthy part of being human. And as our guest this weekend, Daniel H. Pink, explains in his book, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward, understanding how regret works can help us make smarter decisions, perform better at work and school, and bring greater meaning to our lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. |
| 0:05.3 | It's Saturday, December 31st. |
| 0:07.6 | It's New Year's Eve, one of my least favorite days of the year. |
| 0:10.3 | Hmm, interesting. |
| 0:11.7 | Anyway, as promised, we are airing some of our favorite interviews that we have conducted. |
| 0:17.0 | This weekend, it is Dan Pink, who has been on our program before. |
| 0:21.1 | The book he is talking about this time is called The Power of Regret, |
| 0:25.4 | how looking backward moves us forward. |
| 0:28.6 | Again, last weekend we aired the Tim Harford interview. |
| 0:32.4 | This weekend, we're airing the Dan Pink interview, |
| 0:35.5 | because guess what? |
| 0:36.3 | They both blurbed my new book, which is coming out in just a month. |
| 0:40.6 | So if you'd like to pre-order my book and read the great blurb that both Tim and Dan wrote for me, |
| 0:46.4 | you can do so on our website. |
| 0:48.7 | Pre-orders can be taken right now at gillanmoney.com. |
| 0:52.9 | The book is called The Great Money Reset, so check it out. |
| 0:55.4 | All right. Now, let's do this. Let's pick up the conversation with Dan Pink. |
| 1:01.0 | What is it about regret that you think is sort of the interesting motivation here, meaning |
| 1:08.8 | that you say, you start the book off talking about people |
| 1:12.6 | get tattoos like no regrets or Edith P.F. I have no regrets. Whatever. And if I just may quote you, |
| 1:19.6 | the worldview makes intuitive sense. It seems right. And you say it's dead wrong. And you |
| 1:25.0 | basically say that it's total BS. Why is it BS? The reason is |
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