Psychology
Pink Asserts Only Sociopaths and Brain-Damaged Individuals Have No Regrets
The Mel Robbins Podcast
What Makes a Good Life? This Study on 26,000 Regrets Will Guide You for the Rest of Your Life
What was said
"The only people who don't have regrets are little kids because their brains haven't developed the cognitive capacity to do it, people with certain kinds of neurodegenerative disorders, and sociopaths. Otherwise, everybody has regrets."
Daniel Pink dismantled the popular cultural mantra of living with 'no regrets,' revealing that regret is a universal human emotion tied to cognitive development and moral functioning. His research shows that claiming to have no regrets is either dishonest or indicates serious neurological or psychological abnormality. This directly contradicts mainstream self-help advice that encourages people to eliminate regret from their lives.
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- Programme
- The Mel Robbins Podcast
- Episode
- What Makes a Good Life? This Study on 26,000 Regrets Will Guide You for the Rest of Your Life
- Clip time
- 5:26
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