How Did You Find Your Passion for Public Health and Surgery?

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When you're young, you don't know what actually energizes you and what you will prove to be good at. "I just said yes, I hit college and found my mind was blown," he says of his career path. He did a degree in politics and philosophy; worked on the Hill in D.C.; wrote for Slate Magazine. And then he built a public health institution around starting to solve problems.

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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