Surgeon Atul Gawande wants everyone to have a coach

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🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 45 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. He talks with Adam about 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	Thanks to Hilton for sponsoring this episode.
0:03.2	Hey everyone, it's Adam Graham.
0:08.2	Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast on the Science of What Makes Us Tick.
0:13.3	I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating
0:17.6	people to explore how they think and what we should all rethink.
0:23.0	Today's guest is a tour go one day.
0:25.9	A surgeon, Harvard professor, New Yorker writer, and bestselling author of books like
0:30.5	complications and being mortal.
0:33.4	I've long admired a tool's work on error, checklist, and coaching.
0:37.8	And in a conference last year, I got to see his competence and compassion first hand
0:42.2	when he helped rescue me from a severe allergic reaction.
0:45.2	Thanks to tool.
0:46.7	In January 2022, he started a new job in the White House as assistant
0:51.1	administrator of USAID's Bureau for Global Health.
0:54.9	So it's a perfect time to talk with him about leadership, learning from mistakes,
0:59.1	and how he works with his coach.
1:04.4	I've never asked you this question.
1:05.8	I've always wondered, what did you want to be when you were growing up?
1:11.2	Oh man, it was so many different things, but you know, I'm the son of two
1:15.6	Indian immigrant doctors.
1:17.1	So you can bet that the base plan was become a doctor.
1:21.4	All thoughts of anything else were rebellious pivots.
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