Daniel H. Pink

Huge difference between regret and disappointment.

Because with disappointment, you don't have any kind of control.

The great example of that is from Janet Landman, a former professor at the University of Michigan.

She tells a story of like a seven-year-old loses her third tooth.

Before she goes to sleep, she puts the tooth under the pillow.

When she wakes up, the tooth is still there.

The kid is disappointed, but the parents regret leaving that.

So you have to have some agency, and it has to have enough significance that it stays with you.

And once again, going back to these four core regrets, it ends up being the same kinds of things.

If you said, oh, I shouldn't have bought that kind of car, it might stink for a little bit, but the half-life is very, very short.

But other kinds of things stick with us and stick with us, and those are the things often of significance.

Thanks a lot.

What a pleasure.

Thanks for having me.