Daniel Pink

And I was like very sheepishly said, hi, you know what?

I just went to Sophia's graduation and I was thinking about my own college.

And, you know, I kind of regret this.

I kind of regret that.

And I realized that everybody wanted to talk about it.

That once I sort of let loose, they let loose.

And you ended up having these very rich generative conversations that people were bottling these things up.

And so-

To make a long story longer, I actually was working on an entirely different book at the time.

And so I took this other book, put it aside, spent a month just doing the basic research on regret, spent another month writing an entirely new book proposal, which I sent to my very surprised editor, who thought I was working on this one book, and said, hey, I think I want to write this book.

Now, there's also a personal side of this.

Not only was the impulse me, but also...

There's a stage of life thing going on here.

You know, I am 61 years old.

I am in the, to use a golf term, the back nine of life, all right?

I got more of my life behind me than ahead.

So there's more to look back and regret, but also there's a sense of urgency going forward.

And so this is not a book I would have written when I was 31, but-

At this stage of my life, there's something about it that felt kind of inevitable because I'm at the perfect point because I got a lot of room to look back, but knock wood, room to look forward and do better.

Yes.