Daniel Pink
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
When you do that the second time, it's not as awkward.
And there's not been a single time I've done something like that where someone said, oh, that's weird.
Instead, it's the exact opposite.
Oh, my God.
So nice of you.
Fantastic.
Hey, that was so nice of you to text.
Like, what's going on with you?
Your regret about debt is a foundation regret.
Yeah, I'll tell you why.
Because each individual act of spending was not itself cataclysmic.
It's small decisions that you make early in life that accumulate to terrible consequences later on.
So I spent too much and saved too little and now I'm broke.
Hugely common regret.
I didn't exercise or eat right.
Now I'm profoundly unhealthy.
You smoke one cigarette, it's fine.
You do it for 20 years, it's not so fine.
And so these are regrets that accumulate and then have terrible consequences.
And that's how these things catch up on us.