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

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🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 45 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
0:09.0	Hi everyone, it's Medupa.
0:11.0	We're taking a break this week, but we'll be back with new episodes very soon.
0:15.0	In the meantime, we're sharing another Ted Audio Collective podcast,
0:19.0	rethinking with Adam Grant.
0:21.0	We've shared episodes of Work Life with you before,
0:24.0	and now Adam is doing a more regular show
0:27.0	where he digs into the psychology of the world's most interesting minds.
0:31.0	Here's one we thought you'd enjoy.
0:33.0	If you like it, get more episodes by following rethinking with Adam Grant
0:38.0	wherever you're listening to this.
0:46.0	Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant.
0:48.0	Welcome back to rethinking, my podcast on the science of what makes us tick.
0:54.0	I'm an organizational psychologist,
0:56.0	and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people
0:59.0	to explore how they think and what we should all rethink.
1:04.0	My guest today is Mark Cuban,
1:06.0	the outspoken serial entrepreneur,
1:08.0	Shark Tank Investor,
1:10.0	and owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks.
1:12.0	Mark's latest venture, Cost Plus Drugs,
1:15.0	has made hundreds of prescriptions more affordable.
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