How to pronounce "longing"

And the good news is that there's a systematic way to do that.

But I want to take just a few minutes to tell you about another aspect of regret

that I think is really, really just super interesting.

As part of the research here,

I decided to ask people for their regrets,

and to my surprise,

I ended up collecting about 16,000 regrets

from people in 105 countries.

It’s an extraordinary trove.

And what I realized when I went through this incredible database

of human longing and aspiration

is that around the world,

and there's very little national difference here,

people kept expressing the same four regrets.

Around the world, there are the same four regrets

that keep coming up over and over and over again.

So what I want to do is just quickly tell you

about these four core regrets,

because I think they reveal something incredibly important and interesting.

So the four core regrets that I'm going to cover.

Number one, what I call foundation regrets.