The Redeeming Narrative

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Dan mc adams is a personality psychologist at northwestern, and he examines how narrative helps us form identity. He says they're two raining narratives in our lives: contamination and redemption. Contamination narrative is things go from good to bad; the redemption narrative is that they are redeemed. And i think that regret is the ultimate redemption narrative - we can take this negativity and use it to chart forward.

How often have you heard someone say they want to live their life with no regrets?

Our society often teaches us that a successful life is one lived without regrets. But in his new book The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward, best-selling author Dan Pink offers a different perspective. Regret, he suggests, is a valuable raw material that allows us to learn from our mistakes and make the imperfect more perfect.

In this week's episode, Dan shares five counterintuitive ways you can use regret to your advantage and design a life that really matters.

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