Elise Hu

So we hope they inspire you too.

For many of us, reflection is a huge part of the end of the year.

And with reflection can come some regret.

It's one of our most powerful emotions and also maybe one of the most misunderstood.

In this conversation from 2022, author Daniel H. Pink speaks with TED curator Whitney Pennington Rogers about his work gathering more than 16,000 stories of regret from people in more than 100 countries in an effort to better understand this emotion.

They discuss the patterns that emerged from his research, which he says boil down to four core regrets—

and discuss steps to transform your own regrets in order to create the life you've always wanted to live.

That was Daniel H. Pink and Whitney Pennington Rogers in conversation for a TED membership event in 2022.

Visit TED.com slash membership to join yourself and become a TED member.

If you're curious about TED's curation, find out more at TED.com slash curation guidelines.

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