Our top five regrets on our deathbeds.
So, we can do something about them now 🙂
- I wish I hadn’t worked so hard
- I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends
- I wish I had let myself be happier
- I wish I’d had the courage to express my true self
- I wish I’d lived a life true to my dreams, instead of what others expected of me.
Source: as reported by hospice workers, who look after terminally ill people.
From: Jane McGonigal’s brilliant TEDTalk.
What’s it got to do with leadership?
Warren Bennis, the ‘Dean of Leadership’, according to the FT, says a lot of leaders are forged through adversity – going through something tough in their life that he calls ‘the crucible’.
Jane McGonigal went through her own crucible. Then thought ‘What if you could have the transformation into someone far more capable, living a better life, as a better person, for longer, and healthier, without having the trauma of the crucible?’
And invented a way of doing that. Just watching her video can make you live seven and a half minutes longer. Following her methods, outlined in her talk, can add 10 years to your life.
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