This February 2022 episode of the Plain English Podcast explores how we can use regret to improve ourselves and influence our futures.

How often do we push away negative emotions, only to have those feelings return because we never faced them?

Living a life without regret may sound like bliss, but regret serves a purpose; it can make us realize what is important and guide us to being better.

Plain English is a news and culture podcast hosted by political and technology writer Derek Thompson.

In this February 2022 episode, Thompson chats with Daniel Pink, popular psychology author and former chief speechwriter for American Vice President Al Gore.

Pink and Thompson dive into the psychology of regret, how pop culture has obscured its purpose, why regret has become taboo, and how we can improve ourselves by facing our past.