The Pattern of Coaching

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"We have an educational paradigm. You will put in your 10,000 hours of education and then you will be a self learner," he says. "In things like violin, they don't have coaches." Itzak Perlman's wife became his coach after she stopped playing to give him feedback. He also brought a coach into his operating room: Bob Osteen who died recently.

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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