CHAPTER 9
What Drives Your Achievements
You Are What You’ve Achieved
As mentioned in Chapter 4, Bronnie Ware was an Australian nurse who spent years caring for people in hospice. She cited that the most common regret for the dying was “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”1
In 2022, I had author Daniel Pink on my show to talk about his book The Power of Regret.2 While Bronnie’s research was with the dying who no longer had time to correct their regrets, Dan studied a broad spectrum of people from all walks of life, many of whom did still have time to make corrections. He found all regrets fell into four categories, one of which he titled “Boldness Regrets.”3 Dan explained this is when ...
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