Succeed by Embracing Your Regrets With Help From Daniel Pink’s New Book
Years ago, a photo started circulating on the internet of a man in a white tank top and black baseball hat. He looked pretty normal — except for the phrase “No Ragrets” tattooed across his chest! The jokes practically made themselves; “I bet he r e grets that one” was a favorite. You might remember thinking the same thing. But according to author and researcher Daniel Pink, that unlucky internet sensation shouldn’t bemoan his tattoo — only the philosophy that inspired it. In his new book, “The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward,” Pink argues that regrets are normal and healthy, but the “‘no regrets philosophy of life” isn’t. Why? Because it keeps us from embracing and learning from our mistakes. “The Power of Regret” teaches readers to do just that. In it, Pink draws on a World Regret Survey he conducted of over 15,000 people in 105 countries to outline four common categories of regrets: foundation regrets, boldness regrets, moral regrets, and connection regrets. If you think you got the wrong college degree in retrospect, that’s a foundation regret. A boldness regret might be regretting spending $3,000 on a vacation on a whim or investing in a startup idea that didn’t pan out. You might feel moral regret if you cheated on your diet, or connection regret if you didn’t forge a bond with a now-successful coworker when you had the chance. Do any of those categories sound familiar? They should! Pink dives into each regret type in his book and explains how to shift your mindset about it and move forward into a more successful, informed future. “Regret is not dangerous or abnormal, a dilation from the steady path to happiness,” he writes. “It is healthy and universal, an integral part of being human. Regret is also valuable. It clarifies. It instructs.” Business owners and ambitious entrepreneurs have more regrets than most people, because they take more risks — but that also means they have more to learn from those past failures! Like Huffington Post and Thrive Global mogul Arianna Huffington once said, “We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes — understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” “The Power of Regret” could be the key to reframing any “failures” in your past and using them as milestones to grow
your business and personal life for the rest of 2022. As one GoodReads reviewer put it, “You could do your future self a real favor by reading this book.” Ready to find out for sure? Grab a copy of “The Power of Regret” today at your favorite local library or bookstore, and if you love it, check out Pink’s other books, including “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us” and “When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing.”
“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven.” –Luke 6:37 ESV
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