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Harvard professor and New Yorker writer at Tool Galan Day on how to manage your time. He was recently tapped by President Biden to serve as the Assistant Administrator of USAID's Bureau for Global Health, where he oversees a portfolio of public health grants that totals more than $4 billion. Rufus Griskam: The conversation you're about to hear is funny, thought-provoking, and inspiring.

Renowned surgeon Atul Gawande spends his days in the operating theater and his nights writing articles for The New Yorker and bestselling books like Being Mortal. Today on the show, he tells our curator Adam Grant how he balances his passions for different fields, why he works with a coach, and how he's helping the White House end our current pandemic — and prevent the next one.

This is an episode of ReThinking with Adam Grant from the TED Audio Collective. For more episodes on how great minds don't think alike, follow ReThinking wherever you're listening to this.

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