Mark Cuban doesn’t believe in following your passions | ReThinking w/ Adam Grant

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🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Mark Cuban has gone from selling garbage bags door-to-door to selling internet companies for billions, acquiring an NBA team, and becoming a beloved “Shark” on Shark Tank. Mark reveals to Adam how he turns problems into opportunities in entrepreneurship, basketball, and investing. They discuss his latest venture–disrupting the healthcare industry with an online pharmacy and a price-slashing philosophy that makes hundreds of drugs affordable–and why following your passion is not the best way to maintain your motivation. This is an episode of ReThinking with Adam Grant, another podcast in the TED Audio Collective. For episodes on the psychology of the world's most interesting minds, follow ReThinking wherever you're listening to this.

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0:00.0	Have you listened to Talk Radio recently?
0:03.0	Let's talk about this war on white people.
0:05.0	That's a pro-quiling, it's good for you.
0:07.0	Bill the Keystone pipeline, deport illegals, build the wall.
0:10.0	I'm Katie Thornton, host of the divided dial,
0:13.0	a new five-part series from WNMC's On the Media,
0:17.0	about how the American right came to dominate Talk Radio
0:21.0	and how one company is launching a conservative media empire
0:25.0	from the airwaves.
0:26.0	Listen every Tuesday and on the media feed.
0:30.0	Hi everyone, it's Stephen here.
0:32.0	I'm excited to share something different today,
0:34.0	an episode from another Ted Audio Collective podcast,
0:37.0	rethinking with Adam Grant.
0:39.0	If you're a fan of Ted, generally,
0:42.0	you're already familiar, I'm sure, with Adam's work,
0:44.0	but he's a best-selling author, a terrific Ted speaker.
0:48.0	He's an expert in a lot of things that we talk about here
0:51.0	at the Ted interview, like creativity and motivation
0:54.0	and work culture, but the best way to understand
0:57.0	what you're about to listen to in this sample episode
1:00.0	is to hear it directly from Adam himself.
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