Daniel Pink
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's like, you're not that special.
You're a human being who's living an experience.
And at a moment, you have a scene where things went off the rails.
All right, that feels terrible.
I get it.
Treat yourself with kindness rather than contempt.
Treat yourself like you would a friend and recognize it's a moment in your life rather than the full measure of your life.
And when we do that, we can begin to make sense of regret.
We can begin to draw lessons from it.
What we discovered is that around the world, people seem to have the same four kinds of regrets.
Right.
So there are four categories all over the world.
Foundation regrets, if only I had done the work.
Boldness regrets, if only I had taken the chance.
Moral regrets, if only I had done the right thing.
And connection regrets, if only I had reached out.
The most common regret was a regret of connection.
All right.
And so typically the story was this.
You had a relationship or should have had a relationship that...