What Daniel Pink has said about Connection regrets
2 quotes · 1 episode · May 25, 2026
Daniel Pink, American author who led a large study on regret, has been quoted on Connection regrets 2 times in 1 episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast, most recently on May 25, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Pink states that connection regrets were the most common category found worldwide and that such relationships usually dissolve without drama.
“The most common regret was a regret of connection. All right. And so typically the story was this”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: What Makes a Good Life? This Study on 26,000 Regrets Will Guide You for the Rest of Your Life (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 25:16
Pink argues that fear of awkwardness is an overblown barrier to reaching out to people.
“This is actually a big lesson for me personally about feelings of awkwardness as a barrier to doing things. Awkwardness is the most papery of paper tigers”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: What Makes a Good Life? This Study on 26,000 Regrets Will Guide You for the Rest of Your Life (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 31:10
Episodes
What Makes a Good Life? This Study on 26,000 Regrets Will Guide You for the Rest of Your LifeThe Mel Robbins Podcast · May 25, 2026 · 1 h 10 min
Mel Robbins and author Daniel Pink discuss the World Regret Survey, the four core types of regret, and a three-step method for learning from regret.
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