Daniel H. Pink

Around the world,

there are the same four regrets that keep coming up over and over and over again.

So what I want to do is just quickly tell you about these four core regrets, because I think they reveal something incredibly important and interesting.

So the four core regrets that I uncovered.

Number one, what I call foundation regrets.

Foundation regrets.

These are people who regret things like this.

not saving enough money, which would be like, you know, financial regret, not taking care of their health and not eating right, health regret.

But they're the same.

Those kinds of regrets are about making choices that didn't allow you to have some stability, a stable platform for their life.

I have a lot of people who regret not working hard enough in school, a lot of people who regret, I got a lot of regrets about not saving money.

And it's the kind of thing, it reminds me a little bit of Aesop's fable of the ant and the grasshopper.

where earlier in their life they acted like a grasshopper instead of the ant, and now it's catching up with them.

So foundation regrets sound like this.

If only, and that's the catchphrase of regret, if only.

If only I'd done the work.

Second category.

I love this category.

It's fascinating.

Boldness regrets, boldness regrets.