Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: We tend to like stories of leaders who have big ideas and strong convictions, the kind of visionaries who stop at nothing in pursuing their goals. But what happens when a leader's vision is the wrong one? NPR's Shankar Vedantam brings us the story of an ambitious surgeon who was a pioneer in his field and also made a grave mistake. SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE: From a very early age, Don Laub was driven by a big idea. He wanted to help people. He wanted to help a lot of people. As a small child, when kids in high school were asked to donate money to a charity, his classmates contribution a dime. Don worked in a vegetable garden an entire summer to raise a whopping $10. DON LAUB: Now, I got a letter that my mother wrote for some of her friends saying Don has done something that nobody has ever done. VEDANTAM: Don's father feared his little boy was consumed with being a do-gooder and would turn out to be a failure in business. His
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