People are far more likely to regret the career risks and chances they didn't take than the ones they did, which is why individuals should be willing to take a chance on work they love.

55:18He says again, the surface domain, whether the risk involved are education or work or love lives, doesn't matter much. What haunts us is the inaction itself. And so, I think that I think that ties really nicely with this idea that if people could start over, they'd do something they'd do something different. There's a great video that that Pink references that we can put in the show notes where Bezos is asked

55:41about the decision to leave D.E. Shaw and and start Amazon. And he said he used a regret minimization framework. He said only a nerd could do that, but he said um that he imagined himself being 80, and would he care that he left D.E. Shaw maybe for winning a bonus, you know, or would he or would he care more that he didn't take this chance, this kind of

56:05instinctive chance that he felt like he had to take. And he immediately after thinking about it in in that way wanted to go do it. And so, >> Hey Hey Bill I have Bezos's regret minimization framework taped to my computer monitor. There you go. I didn't even know that. >> literally taped to my monitor. Yeah. Powerful. Yeah. So, so that's that's that's what this is about. That's what this book is

56:32about. That's who it's for. And I want more people to take a flyer and go do what they love. You know, we have a phrase I use in the book, life is a use it or lose it proposition. Totally. One shot deal, man. Well, how do you plan to promote it? It comes out in February, late February. And so, I'm just getting started in that process. If

56:52people have ideas they want to share with me, please reach out and let me know. >> I'll host I'll host a book launch event, Bill. Okay. We We've got We've got a lot of fun stuff planned, but but but uh but um I need to record the audio book. I I know that's going to take a a lot of time. I'm excited. There's a handful of people that have read it, maybe maybe 50

57:14in the publisher and whatnot, and nearly every one of them tells me that they immediately thought of three or four people they want to give it to. And so, I hope there's kind of a viral component to it because people have that reaction. But, you know, if you're feeling stuck in your career, I you should read it. If you're a teenager or young adult who feels overwhelmed by people telling you