How To Overcome Regret - Daniel H. Pink - #437

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Daniel Pink. He's a psychologist, speaker and an author. Regret is the most common negative emotion humans talk about. It's even the second most common overall emotion which we talk about after love. And yet, our relationship with it is pretty terrible. Having no regrets is not only a bad tattoo from the 90s, but also a philosophy that robs us of valuable insights from life. Expect to learn the most common types of regrets people have in life, whether action or inaction is the cause of most suffering, how Daniel suggests we can grow past our regrets, why never looking backward is limiting our growth, how people believe in both free will and things happening for a reason, and much more. A little bit of an update. I have decided to stay in New York for another week. I came out here with Jordan after the podcast in San Antonio and met up with Douglas Murray and some other people. And I quite like it here. 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