Everyone Needs To Hear This | Mel Robbins #shorts

The worst sentence, Mel, is 3 words. I wish I... And my great joy is that I don't live that way. I think we've lost our way with the elderly, and I think we've really done a disservice to ourselves by misunderstanding what true wisdom is. I gravitate very heavily and have my whole life to people in their 80s and 90s. My mom tells me stories of when we first came to America, that when we would go outside and walk in Queens, that I would like roll up on strangers, literally 80-year-old strangers, and like sit down and start talking to them. She thought it was cute and everyone thought it was cute, but as I got older, those stories she told me Started making me understand like, ah man, I've always been attracted to wisdom. Like talking to a 91-year-old woman about her life will bring her incredible joy of just companionship. But here's a little secret. It's gonna do a lot more for you. And let me tell you, as someone who has gone out of his way to sit with people in their 80s on planes and at airports and in random moments in my life, The number one thing everyone listening to this podcast wants to avoid is regret. When you talk to someone in their 80s that is not a relative and you talk to them for more than 1 minute, 20 minutes, 15 minutes, 9 minutes, an hour, inevitably, inevitably, at some point in that conversation, she or he will start to open the door of regret. Verbally with you. If anything comes out of this podcast, if one person, if one of you, if one of you decide to do something tomorrow— jump out of a plane skydiving, quit your job and become a dog walker and live more humbly, get out of a toxic relationship— tomorrow, tomorrow, do something that's been sitting in your tummy for a A day, a year, and most likely a decade, Mel. And just do it, actually.