Bill Gurley

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.

That's right.

prefer decisiveness over... I was hoping to bring up one of the many biases I've read about in all the behavioral science books, but I'm going to go to a different place, which is I think we ruminate a lot.

Like our brains, you know, constantly...

are replaying things in our minds.

And maybe that's what dreaming is too.

But I think because of that, it's very easy to imagine these what ifs, like to build a story, especially a positive story around the what if that didn't get done.