Bill Gurley

We did, along the way, I launched a survey on SurveyMonkey that said if you could go back

and start over, would you do a different career?

And seven out of 10 people said yes.

And I eventually took that to Wharton People Analytics, and they did a more scientific version of it, much broader audience, and came back six out of 10, but very similar.

And that notion of career regret's interesting.

I had the opportunity to talk to Daniel Pink, who you may know, who wrote a book.

He's been on the show about regret.

About regret.

Yep.

in that book he says the biggest regrets people have and and and he showed me a graph it actually gets worse as you get older towards end of life are regrets of inaction he calls them boldness regrets it's what you didn't do like humans are great at forgiving themselves made a mistake learn from it won't do it again but they ruminate about what they didn't try

And so I've thought about this long and hard now since I've been working on it for six years.

I fear our current education path has become a bit of a conveyor belt.

We're pushing these children into this meat grinder and we're pushing them towards jobs that are typically called safe jobs, at least before AI.

And I think they're learning to grind

That's what Angela Duckworth's been saying.

Now, you know, the perseverance part, we've taught them, but if they don't have the love for it, it turns into burnout.

And so the purpose of this book that I wrote is hopefully to give as many people permission to go do what they want in life.

And look, I'm sure it won't touch everybody, but if there's a subgroup of people who read this and have the conviction that they can go succeed in this thing they love—

I think that'll be a huge impact on the world.

Like, I think the people that do that are the people, you know, these people like that are just love what they do and not only are they more successful, but I think they radiate a bit, you know, and spread positive energy.