Happy Sunday TED Talks Daily listeners. It's Elise Hugh, as we often do on Sundays. Today we're sharing a recent episode of another podcast from the TED Audio Collective, handpicked by us for you. Matt Damon. He's someone most of us know as the Hollywood icon for movies like

Goodwill Hunting and The Martian. But did you know he has another huge passion and life

mission? It's ensuring access to clean safe water around the world. And when he met social

entrepreneur Gary White in 2008, who was working on access to safe drinking water

globally. They realized they could combine their efforts to reach more people. This led to the

creation of water.org, which Gary leads as CEO. In this episode of Rethinking with Adam Grant,

Adam sits down with Matt and Gary at the January 26th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

to talk about their innovative approach to problem solving, handling rejection in high-stakes work environments,

and Matt's knack for forging strong partnerships. Adam also invites the two to what he calls

office hours where he lets guests ask him questions as if he was their professor to tackle

a current challenge they're facing in their work. To hear more deep conversations, you can find

rethinking wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about the TED Audio Collective at

odiocollective.tadet.com. Now on to the episode.

The worst career advice you've ever gotten.

Well, I don't know if it's the worst, but I do love telling the story about my father reading the script of goodwill hunting and telling me that the line, how do you like them apples, would never work.

He told me to take it out of the script. Your father told you to cut the most iconic line of the movie? He rest in peace. And after the movie came out, he said, Matthew, don't ever give me a script to read again. That was a great rethinking moment for him. Yeah, yeah. Hey, everyone, it's Adam Grant.

Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast with Ted on the science of what makes us tick.

I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking.

Matt Damon is a Hollywood icon.

From the born identity in Ocean's 11 series to the talented Mr. Ripley, to the

Martian and Interstellar, it's hard to pick a favorite performance, though for me, nothing

can top Goodwill hunting.

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