Moral ambition Stop wasting your talent and start making a difference
Book - 2025
"A career consists of 2,000 workweeks, and how you spend that time is one of the most important decisions of your life. Still, millions of people are stuck in in mind-numbing, pointless, or just plain harmful jobs. There's an antidote to this waste of talent, and it's called moral ambition. Moral ambition is the will to be among the best, but with different measures of success. Not a fancy title, fat salary, or corner office, but a career dedicated to the best solutions to the world's biggest problems -- whether that means tackling climate change, making pandemics history or fighting Big Tobacco. In Moral Ambition, internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman reveals how our conventional definitions of success are h...arming us and the planet, and shows how we can shift the focus from personal gain to societal benefit. In the process, he explains, we will join a growing movement of pioneers who are already living out this ethos. They're the builders, the problem-solvers, the doers who have chosen a path less traveled. A guidebook to finding that path for ourselves, Moral Ambition reminds us that the real measure of success lies not in what we accumulate, but in what we contribute, and shows how we, too, can build a legacy that truly matters."--
| Location | Call Number | Status | |
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| 2nd Floor EXPRESS shelf | 331.702/Bregman | Checked In | |
| 2nd Floor New Shelf | 331.702/Bregman | (NEW SHELF) | Due Aug 26, 2025 |
| 2nd Floor New Shelf | 331.702/Bregman | (NEW SHELF) |
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Self-help publications
- Published
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New York, NY :
Little, Brown & Company
2025.
- Language
- English
Dutch - Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Description
- Translated from Dutch.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-275) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780316580359
- Prologue: The happiest brain on earth
- 1. No, you're not fine just the way you are A model for what you can do with your talents and your time
- 2. Lower your threshold for taking action On resistance heroes and how contagious moral ambition can be
- 3. Join a cult (or start your own) Nader's Raiders, the Quakers, and other outsiders who change the world
- 4. See winning as your moral duty The Noble Loser's five illusions and the genius of Rosa Parks
- 5. Learn to weep over spreadsheets The remarkable tale of the man who hit the wrong button on his remote
- 6. Enroll at a Hogwarts for do-gooders Visiting one of the most inspiring schools on the planet
- 7. Find out what the world needs and make it happen What we can learn from innovators like Jonas Salk and Josephine Cochrane
- 8. Save a life. Now only $4,999! What radical prioritising makes possible, and how moral ambition can go off the rails
- 9. Expand your moral circle Plus: six signs you may be on the wrong side of history
- 10. Make future historians proud Taking on the biggest threats to humanity
- Epilogue: How do you know when you're doing enough?
- The School for Moral Ambition
- Thanks
- Notes
- Index