How To Stop Beating Yourself Up Over Past Mistakes | Daniel Pink Ep. 625

Daniel Pink is the NYT-bestselling author of When and Drive. His latest book is The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward, about the transforming power of our most misunderstood yet potentially most valuable emotion: regret.

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What We Discuss with Dan:
0:00 - Intro
0:30 - Everyone has ragrets
4:58 - The BS of self-help “No Regrets” mantra
8:54 - Feeling bad can be a good thing
15:21 - How regret helps you make better decisions
23:39 - How to stop beating yourself up over past regrets
28:18 - The Photographic Negative method: how to harness the power of regret
32:10 - The difference between disappointment and regret
36:34 - People regret what they DIDN’T do much more than what they DID do
43:10 - How to spot when a decision may become a future regret
51:08 - How to get over regrets you can’t fix
57:42 - Spotting regrets without always being anxious of regret

Regrets? Frank Sinatra had a few. We all do. But Ol’ Blue Eyes seemed to excel at dwelling on that regret only as far as he needed to. Then he faced it all, stood tall, and did it his way. And if NYT-bestselling author Daniel Pink (When and Drive) taught us how to optimize our sleep and motivate others during his previous visits to the show, he can darned well give us the key to utilizing the most human thing we do — regret — for propelling us into the future instead of dragging us back to the past.

On this episode, Daniel joins us to discuss his latest book, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward. Here, we’ll learn about the four core regrets we each have and understand how the insights they provide give us a path forward. We’ll also see how regret works like a photographic negative — knowing what we regret most allows us to focus clearly on how to avoid repeating whatever got us there. Listen, learn, and enjoy!

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