A Counterintuitive Strategy for Sharper Decision-Making, Stronger Performance, and a More Meaningful Life. | Daniel Pink

This is the 10% happier podcast of Dan Harris. Hello everybody, how are we doing? What do you regret the most? What are the things you've done or failed to do that have caused you the most regret? This is a fascinating, although painful thing to think about.

You might be tempted, in fact, to either not think about it or to go all the way in the other direction and to wallow in shame. That's usually the direction I go in. Neither direction, as you might imagine, is a winning strategy. What you want to do is lean in and learn. Again, that's not avoiding and it's not wallowing.

It's a fruitful middle path. Today we're going to talk to a really smart writer, a best-selling author, who has written a whole book about how you can harness your regrets in a way that will improve your performance, sharpen your decision making, and add meaning to your life. He's got tons and tons of thoughtful, workable strategies for not only learning from your past decisions, but also for minimizing regrets going forward. Daniel Pink is the author of seven best-selling nonfiction books. His latest is called The Power of Regret.

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