Surgeon Atul Gawande wants everyone to have a coach | ReThinking w/Adam Grant

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Atul Gawande was advised by a colleague to say yes to every opportunity until he turned 40. Since then he’s been a renowned surgeon, a public health leader and government policymaker, and a bestselling author and “New Yorker” writer. In this episode of ReThinking with Adam Grant, he dives into his fascinating career and how he balances his passions for different fields, why he works with a coach even in the operating room, and how he’s working in The White House to end our current pandemic–and prevent the next one.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:08.5	This is Ted Health, I'm Dr. Shoshana Unger-Liter.
0:12.8	We're taking a break this week, but we'll be back with new episodes very soon.
0:17.1	In the meantime, we're sharing another Ted Audio Collective podcast, rethinking with
0:21.6	Adam Grant.
0:22.6	It's a new weekly show where Adam digs into the psychology of the world's most interesting
0:27.3	minds to share surprising science that can make us all a little bit smarter.
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0:38.9	listening to this.
0:43.2	Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant.
0:50.6	Welcome back to rethinking, my podcast on the Science of What Makes us Tick.
0:55.7	I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating
1:00.1	people to explore how they think and what we should all rethink.
1:06.3	Today's guest is a tour go one day, a surgeon, Harvard professor, New Yorker writer, and best
1:11.7	selling author of books like Complications and Being Mortal.
1:15.3	I've long admired a tool's work on error, checklists, and coaching.
1:20.4	And in a conference last year, I got to see his competence and compassion firsthand when
1:24.8	he helped rescue me from a severe allergic reaction.
1:27.6	Thanks a tool.
1:29.2	In January 2022, he started a new job in the White House as assistant administrator of USAID's
1:35.6	Bureau for Global Health.
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