The Importance of Choosing One Thing

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Disaster relief requires planning and resilience in order to be successful.
The biggest lesson learned was that there is a space between disaster relief and system building, which is why it is important to have a team that can adapt quickly.

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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