The Moral Recommendations

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There seems to be a message in all sorts of media that there's no consequence whatsever to a whole series of actions. And yet, what you've found is data to support what i have found in my life in coaching people and counselling people is that they do have regrets around actions they felt themselves were immoral. I find these moral regrets kind of heartening, because what it suggests is that our nature is that we want to be good. But remember reading in the book a whole list of people that part of their own beliefs include no regrets. They say that most of us actually want to lead decent lives. We want to do the right thing, and when we don't,

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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Greg McKeown

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Hosted by Greg McKeown
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Executive Produced by Greg McKeown, Brent Montgomery, Ed Simpson and Derrial Christon