Mark Cuban doesn’t believe in following your passions | ReThinking w/Adam Grant
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
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 | Ted Audio Collective |
| 0:07.0 | Hello everyone, we hope you're enjoying this new season of After Hour so far. |
| 0:11.6 | We're taking a short break this week because we want to play you an episode of another |
| 0:15.7 | show in the Ted Audio Collective, rethinking with Adam Grant. |
| 0:21.0 | You might already know Adam from his Ted Talks, Books, and Ted Podcast Work Life. |
| 0:26.8 | But this is a new podcast where he sits down every week with all kinds of different people |
| 0:32.1 | to figure out what makes them tick and what we can learn from them about creativity, |
| 0:36.9 | leadership, and the way our minds work. |
| 0:40.2 | We thought you would particularly enjoy this episode with Mark Cuban. |
| 0:45.0 | Other guests of Adam this season include author Celeste Ing, actor and producer Reese |
| 0:49.7 | Witherspoon, neuroscientist Chantel Pratt, and noble laureate Saul Perimotor. |
| 0:56.2 | You can find the show by searching, rethinking with Adam Grant wherever you're listening |
| 1:01.3 | to this. |
| 1:02.3 | Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant. |
| 1:07.1 | Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast on the Science of What Makes us Tick. |
| 1:12.2 | I'm an organizational psychologist and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating |
| 1:16.6 | people to explore how they think and what we should all rethink. |
| 1:22.9 | My guest today is Mark Cuban, the outspoken serial entrepreneur, Shark Tank Investor, |
| 1:28.3 | and owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks. |
| 1:31.2 | Mark's latest venture, Cost Plus Drugs, is made hundreds of prescriptions more affordable. |
| 1:37.0 | We have a relic in conversation about what it takes to disrupt an industry and when to |
| 1:41.8 | bet on a person and an idea. |
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