What Makes a Good Life? This Study on 26,000 Regrets Will Guide You for the Rest of Your Life

Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast. Today, you and I are talking about a global study that completely changed the way I think about my entire life. This study is called the Global Regret Survey, and it analyzed more than 26,000 regrets from people in 134 countries. Now, when I read this research, It stopped me in my tracks.

You know what it made me realize? I need to call my dad. I need to take my health more seriously. I need to stop beating myself up over the stupid things that I did in my 20s, my 30s, my 40s, and just move on. I was so moved by what I learned.

that I invited the director of that study, Daniel Pink, to be here in Boston for a life-changing conversation about regret. Daniel Pink is going to teach you that after analyzing regrets from all over the world, there are four types of regrets. And based on what kind of regret you're dealing with, there's very specific strategies that you can use based on the research to process the regret, to learn from it, and more importantly, Move forward. Second, we're going to talk about three steps based on research that you and your loved ones need that are proven to help you break free of that heavy judgment, that weight that you feel when you regret something.

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