Book · 2022 · Psychology
The Power of Regret
How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
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Our first guest is New York Times best-selling author Daniel Pink and he has a new book out today called The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward.
Megyn Kelly · The Megyn Kelly Show · Feb 2022 Listen at 0:41 What they say about it
- Discusses the book“the power of regret”5


- Recommends the book“there's a great book”4


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And there's a there's a great book. I read a lot of books in writing my book, but there's a great book called The Power of Regret by Daniel Pink. He's He's a well-known author, but he he has this thing he calls boldness regrets.
Bill Gurley BG2 Pod · Oct 2025 There's a great book by Daniel Pink called The Power of Regrets.
It is called The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward.
Megyn Kelly The Megyn Kelly Show · Feb 2022 As soon as I saw the title of your book I was like this reminds me of that tattoo that you see everywhere.
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The Power of Regret by Daniel H. Pink is a non-fiction book that examines longitudinal survey data on human regrets to argue that looking backward can actually help people move forward and understand what they value. The host of My First Million and Bill Gurley on BG2 Pod both recommended the book, highlighting its insights into personal regret and boldness regrets regarding chances not taken. Megyn Kelly strongly recommended the New York Times bestseller on her show, reviewing its core message and encouraging listeners to check it out. Ryan Holiday discussed the book on The Daily Stoic while sharing a personal regret about taking his public talks too seriously. Chris Williamson mentioned on Modern Wisdom that he spoke with the author in New York and explored how regrets reveal personal investments, and Steven Bartlett praised the concise, fluff-free nature of the book on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett.
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Megyn Kelly so you gotta you guys have got to buy the book because he dan does a great job this is the reason he's the… 5
“our first guest is new york times best-selling author daniel pink and he has a new book out today called the power of regret how looking backward moves us forward”
“and daniel tells a great story about her and how it ended more with daniel pink the author of the power of regret how looking backward moves us forward right after this”
“so you gotta you guys have got to buy the book because he dan does a great job this is the reason he's the number one new york times bestseller”
“it is called the power of regret how looking backward moves us forward uh and don't forget while i have your attention”
“you bet daniel pink the power of regret check it out all right up next”
Bill Gurley And there's a there's a great book. I read a lot of books in writing my book, but there's a great book call… 1
“And there's a there's a great book. I read a lot of books in writing my book, but there's a great book called The Power of Regret by Daniel Pink. He's He's a well-known author, but he he has this thing he calls boldness regrets.”
Steven Bartlett and that's so evident especially in the book that i just read which is the power of regret your new book 2
“and that's so evident especially in the book that i just read which is the power of regret your new book”
“so you wrote this book the power of regret yes”
Chris Williamson i had um the power of regret he brought that book at the start of this year i spoke to him while i was in n… 1
“i had um the power of regret he brought that book at the start of this year i spoke to him while i was in new york uh and he used the same thing”
Jordan Harbinger as soon as i saw the title of your book i was like this reminds me of that tattoo that you see everywhere t… 1
“as soon as i saw the title of your book i was like this reminds me of that tattoo that you see everywhere that says no rag rats on it and sure enough you mention it right at the jump”
Ryan Holiday We did that a lot before we had kids. Uh and I would say one regret I have to go to your book is that I in… 1
“We did that a lot before we had kids. Uh and I would say one regret I have to go to your book is that I in retrospect, I took this the talks way too seriously, if that makes sense.”
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“There's a great book by Daniel Pink called The Power of Regrets. And he has a somewhat similar survey data of longitudinal through people's lives.”
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“Daniel Pink is one of the most successful non-fiction writers of the past 30 years. You've probably seen his books, Drive, The Power Regret, To Sell as Human.”
“so what i did is on that one is so in order to research this book one of the things that i did is i looked at the academic research i did my own public opinion survey a quantitative survey of the u.s population and then i also collected um in in the book itself we had 15 000 we're”




