Daniel Pink is an award-winning author and has written 5 New York Times bestselling books on business, work, creativity, and behavior, including Drive, When, To Sell is Human, A Whole New Mind, and his most recent, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward. He was the host and co-executive producer of “Crowd Control,” a television series about human behavior on National Geographic that aired in more than 100 countries. He hosts a popular MasterClass on sales and persuasion; has been featured in leading media including The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, PBS, CNN, and other TV and radio networks; and writes a weekly newsletter, The Pinkcast, with more than 170,000 subscribers. Before venturing out on his own 20 years ago, Daniel worked in several positions in politics and government, including serving as chief speechwriter to former US Vice President Al Gore.

What are we far more likely to regret over the course of our lives? How can we face and evaluate our regrets, and use them to transform ourselves into better workers, problem-solvers and decision-makers? What motivations drive people’s behaviors and how can we learn to perceive them with more accuracy?

“Regret is there for a reason. It makes us feel bad. But if we treat it right, it can help us do better - and live better.”

Daniel Pink

This episode offers key insights on:

• Why negative emotions are good for us and how they help us thrive

• How to face and evaluate our regrets, and use them to transform ourselves into better workers, problem-solvers and decision-makers

• What we are far more likely to regret over the course of our lives

• A powerful method for perceiving human behavior more accurately

• Fundamental attributes of the human condition that are both compatible with and in direct contradiction of each other