What is a Problem I Can Help Solve? (with Tom Rath)

Hello everybody, it's Kim Scott and welcome to The Radical Sabbatical. This is the this is a series of podcasts where I am talking to the authors of books that I love. For me, reading books is one of life's great pleasures. And so I'm thrilled today to have with us Tom Rath. uh who wrote a book which is here on my desk called What's the point?

And uh you can you can pre-order this book now and when what's your what's your pub date? April 28th? I think April 28th, yeah. April 28th. So welcome Tom.

I'm thrilled to be talking to you and I'm really excited uh to share some of your wisdom from this book with folks. Thanks so much for inviting me. It's great to talk to you. So the first thing that I want to talk about is the problem with passion, because I agree passionately with you on this topic. But I think it's it's an interesting, it's an interesting point, and there's a lot of nuance to it.

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