Daniel Pink
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Absolutely.
Open the suitcase because there's a gift inside.
You're freaked out by that suitcase, but open it up.
It's less menacing than you think.
And that's true at any stage of our lives.
They're not the same thing.
So regret is a terrible feeling.
It's a feeling.
This is really important.
It's an emotion.
It's a feeling we have when we look backward.
and wish we had done something differently, wish we hadn't done something, wish we had done something in a different way, all right?
So we look backward, and we think about a decision or an action, and it makes us feel bad, right?
That's what regret is.
Now, it is very different from other kinds of emotions.
So you can have an emotion like disappointment, if you wish something didn't happen.
I was on a trip last week and they were on the East Coast.
There was a massive snowstorm and I basically had to leave early and I can't regret that.
I didn't make it snow, you know, but I can be disappointed.
And so regret has to have agency.