I Asked 5 Millionaires About Their Biggest Regret

So why ask five millionaires about their biggest regret? These are five life lessons from five completely different successful people. And see if you can spot any trends or any commonalities. Hi friends. My name is Ellie. I'm a doctor and YouTube, and I'm going to cheat and I'm going to give you two regrets.

And the first one is a cost of regrets and that is. I basically don't really have many regrets in life, but anytime I have been mean to someone accidentally or deliberately, I have always, always, always requested it. There's not been a single moment where I have accidentally on purpose, been nasty or mean, or not nice to someone or I haven't then regretted it.

And the second one I still think about to this day, and that is when I was 10 years old. I had a massive crush on this girl and I never told her. And I tried to play it. Cool. And I tried to pretend like I didn't like her. And then she ended up leaving the city and I never saw or spoke to her ever again.

And I still think, you know, if I'd have the courage to tell her, I liked her at the age of 10, maybe my life would have turned out differently. So those are two of my regrets. Hey, I'm Neil Brian. And one of the biggest regrets that I've had in the past two years is believing that it's a zero sum game, meaning that in order for me to win, I believed somebody else might have to lose whether you're in competition with somebody in sports and maybe you're competing for the quarterback position, or maybe you're competing in the mile.

You're thinking that you have to be competitive with everyone or in business. For me, it was business. I was looking at people around me, some of my competition, and I thought let's stay away from them. I don't want to work with them. I don't want them to get my ideas because I don't want them to steal them.

And I started to shift the mentality. What I learned something about the coyote and the Badger. These are two animals that you would think would be competing for the prey that they're killing for the things that they are eating. But it turns out that coyotes and badgers. Can actually work together. They work together in nature to hunt and they ended up both winning.

So it's not a zero sum game. Everybody eats, you can work with others, you can collaborate with others and you can find yourself far more successful rather than if you just closed off and tried to stay on your own path, don't let your ego get in the way of it. You succeeding. And so always focus on collaborating, working with others.

What if you have somebody that you're competing in with business and you just call them up one day and say, Hey, let's go to a meeting. Let's see what we can talk about. Right. We think that we're competition, but guess what? Maybe we can both end up making more money. Maybe we can both push ourselves further.

Maybe if you're an athlete and you're thinking that you are in competition with that other athlete, maybe you can both. End up breaking records because you're competing with each other in a healthy manner. And so keep that in mind as you go forward in life. Hey, I'm immersed in sports and I made my money, uh, by figuring out how to make things viral.

Uh, it bolts for the highest traffic websites, and most people don't know about my secret sauce is that I just read all the time. I just read books all the time. I read a book a day for many years and still do. And my biggest regret is that I am now one of the world's most effective learners, but I am now 33.

It took me a very long time to figure out how to do that. I wasted so much time using shitty learning strategies that were really low leverage. Um, and so my biggest regret is that I didn't prioritize learning how to burn. Early enough in my process, uh, learning how to learn is like wishing for more wishes in the real world.

Um, and in an age of exponentially increasing leverage, there is simply no greater skill that you can develop. And so there's a bunch of tricks that I didn't know about back the day. And I wasted tons of time. Like how much time I used to spend walking around without having headphones in listening to audio books on three X.

You can go through an entire book in a few hours, if you can listen to it on three X, most people can. Most people don't know that it's just like, it's like lifting weights. You know, maybe it seems a little awkward at first, when you start off in one X, go to 1.2, five X, 1.5 X, but then you start to build muscle just like you do in the gym.

You stress the muscles, you learn how to go faster. And pretty soon you're able to crank through a book and the time it would have taken you to watch a movie that's life-changing once you know, that learn to learn. Okay. Hi there. My name is . I'm the founder of Pavlov wearable device that helps you change your habits and wake up early.

I was asked what my biggest regrets, and to be honest, I don't really believe in the concept of regrets. I believe that where we are today comes from what we did in the past, and I'm happy where I am today. So I don't believe in consequently. Yes, but that said there are some things I would do differently if I were getting a second chance.

I think the most clear thing is my presentation on sharp. I pitched padlock in the early days and shut down and I pitched it in a way that I'm not happy. That's because I had created a pitch that was designed around my personality that I told my story my way. And that pitch is a very strong, it tells a story of how I suffered from.

Maybe I had troubles with focusing on tasks and I wanted to create a solution that would help me stay focused and then release it as a product. But just a few days before the show aired, I was convinced to change my storyline, to tell the story from a perspective of how we would change the world, how many people would benefit.

And I think that that story is very true. However, it just didn't resonate. It wasn't the same story matched my personality. And for that reason, it led to a negative reaction. So here's what your premises nonsense. Robert it's all nonsense. Uh, show Erin had one of the most viewed episodes of all time, but it wasn't a very positive light.

If I could go back in time, I would definitely have stuck to the pitch that stayed true to my story. So they've been convinced to change it for other people. I don't know if I really have like regrets because generally all my mistakes have taught me something. Right. So like, I don't really regret them, but the, if I could curve like change something, what would it be?

I mean, it would probably just be to focus on like team and talent. As soon as possible to slate in eight prop plane. Yeah. I think most people are probably sleep deprived and malnourished, and it's honestly pretty hard to do something when you're in that situation. That was five regrets from 5 million as subscribe.

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