

These four regrets, Pink argues, operate as a “photographic negative” of the good life. Using the largest sampling of American attitudes about regret ever conducted as well as his own World Regret Survey-which has collected regrets from more than 16,000 people in 105 countries-he identifies the four core regrets that most people have. In The Power of Regret, Pink draws on research in psychology, neuroscience, economics, and biology to challenge widely-held assumptions about emotions and behavior. And if we reckon with them in fresh and imaginative ways, we can enlist our regrets to make smarter decisions, perform better at work and school, and deepen our sense of meaning and purpose. Pink in his latest bold and inspiring work.

That’s nonsense, even dangerous, says Daniel H. “No regrets.” You’ve heard people proclaim it as a philosophy of life.
