Going Deep with Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Finding Fulfillment
Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Kelly Corrigan Show
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Shook By A Book, a 5 part series where we talk to big time American thinkers about transformative reading experiences. We're kicking off the set with a conversation with the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy. Early in his med school days, a friend tipped him off to a book she found life-changing: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and Vivek dove in head first. Join us to find out how The Alchemist helped him move on after a devastating family experience and find his footing in a career he has loved.
Also mentioned in this episode is the book: Conversations with God.
Special thanks to the Teagle Foundation for their generous support of our Shook By A Book series.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan and today I am |
| 0:06.6 | wondering what book you were assigned that changed your thinking in an important |
| 0:12.3 | way. |
| 0:13.0 | For this new series, which we're calling Shook by a book, |
| 0:17.0 | we have asked five big-time thinkers |
| 0:21.0 | to sit with us and talk about a transformational reading experience. |
| 0:26.8 | So kicking off the series is Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Vivek |
| 0:32.1 | Morthy. Drk Morthy. |
| 0:33.2 | Dr. Morthy is one of the most trusted voices |
| 0:36.2 | in America, but he has an incredible backstory, |
| 0:40.1 | a family who was betrayed in a really meaningful, consequential way when he was young, |
| 0:47.0 | and he crossed paths with the alchemist. |
| 0:50.6 | So join me for Kelly Corrigan Wonders and my conversation with Surgeon General |
| 0:55.0 | Dr. Vivek Morthy. Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan. This marks the first of five episodes in a new series called |
| 1:15.9 | Shook by a book. So Shook by a book is asking the same question to five |
| 1:22.1 | big-time American thinkers. |
| 1:24.0 | What is a book that you were assigned to read in college or even discovered on your own as a young person? |
| 1:30.0 | That really changed the way you think and feel in a fundamental way. |
| 1:34.4 | And it's inspired by the work of the Tigo Foundation, |
| 1:37.8 | which is such a cool group of people. |
| 1:40.3 | They work to support and strengthen liberal arts education, which they see as fundamental to meaningful work, effective citizenship, and a fulfilling life. |
| 1:49.0 | And I got talking with them about how that jives with my belief that there is such a thing as a |
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