People who have no regrets, that is usually a sign of a grave problem. The only people without regrets are people whose brains haven't developed or whose brains have been damaged. If you want to know who's going to be happy thriving, look to see do they have people whom they love and who love them. All of us have regrets. It's part of being human.
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
Scratch Audiohouse
Credits:
- Hosted by Greg McKeown
- Produced by Greg McKeown and Scratch Audiohouse
- Executive Produced by Greg McKeown, Brent Montgomery, Ed Simpson and Derrial Christon