"I remember interviewing a, and i may be pronouncing your name incorrectly, tally sharet or shroshe, about optimism bias. And she had sort of laid the groundwork for the idea of thedfferene between retrospection and prospection," he says. "You blend these two things together, and that's what's happening in a moment of regret." He adds: "That completely reframs it. For me, i think that is the coolest thing in the whole book"
NO REGRETS - Our guest in this episode of the You Are Not So Smart podcast is Daniel Pink, the five-time NYT Bestselling author of When and To Sell is Human and Drive and A Whole New Mind. His new book is The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward, a rebuke of the concept of "no regrets" and exploration of the benefits of regret and how to harness them.
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