How to Develop Your Passions and Avoid Burnout (with Atul Gawande and Adam Grant)

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Education, Science

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Renowned surgeon Atul Gawande spends his days in the operating theater and his nights writing articles for The New Yorker and bestselling books like Being Mortal. Today on the show, he tells our curator Adam Grant how he balances his passions for different fields, why he works with a coach, and how he's helping the White House end our current pandemic — and prevent the next one. This is an episode of ReThinking with Adam Grant from the TED Audio Collective. For more episodes on how great minds don't think alike, follow ReThinking wherever you're listening to this. --- Want to listen to hundreds of authors (including Adam) summarize their books in 15 minutes or less? Download The Next Big Idea app at nextbigideaclub.com/podcast/

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0:00.0	LinkedIn presents.
0:06.3	I'm Rufus Griskem, and this is the next big idea.
0:10.4	Today, Harvard professor and New Yorker writer at Tural
0:13.3	Gawande, on how to manage your time, when to say no, and why
0:17.6	everyone needs a coach.
0:30.9	I have been fortunate enough to get to interview many of my
0:39.9	intellectual heroes on this show.
0:42.0	You've all know a Harari, Walter Isaacson, Stephen
0:45.2	Pinker, and of course, our four extraordinary curators, Susan
0:49.2	Cain, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Daniel Pink.
0:52.6	But I still have a running list in my head of dream, future
0:56.4	guests. And one name has always been near the top at Tural
1:00.8	Gawande. At Tural is a practicing surgeon and a professor at
1:04.5	Harvard Medical School. He was recently tapped by President
1:07.3	Biden to serve as the assistant administrator of USAID's
1:11.5	Bureau for Global Health, where he oversees a portfolio of
1:14.7	public health grants that totals more than $4 billion.
1:19.2	At Tural first came onto my radar not as a physician, but as a
1:22.4	writer. A frequent contributor to the New Yorker, he's
1:25.8	written four books, including complications, the checklist
1:29.1	manifesto, and the number one neurotime bestseller, being
1:32.4	mortal. When I heard our curator, Adam Grant, interview a
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