Daniel Pink reflects on regretting his decision to attend law school, but acknowledges the major upside: meeting his wife Jessica there. He frames the regret as a learning experience and argues against conformism and excessive caution.
went to law school. I should not have gone to law school. That was not a good idea. If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't go to law school. Yeah. However, I met my wife in law school. That ended up being one of the smartest things I've ever done. If the devil or the angel, whoever the spirit comes down on this table here and says, all right, Pink, here we go. I got a deal for you. You can go relive your life and you don't have to go to law school. However, the price of that is you can't meet Jessica. Yeah. I would say Satan, no thank you. Yeah. Can I still have that regret and learn from it? Yeah. And the regret that I learned from it is don't be conformist. Yeah. Don't do what everybody else is doing. Don't be so risk averse. You can be satisfied with where your life is and still have regrets that you can learn from.
