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Moral Ambition

How to Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference

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By Rutger Bregman

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From the author of the New York Times bestsellers Humankind and Utopia for Realists—“a more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell” (The New York Times)—comes a bold manifesto daring us to harness our talents and transform our idealism into action, all with the goal of making the world a wildly better place.

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 harming 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.

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  • “Fresh, lucid, and persuasive, Moral Ambition gives us hope, humor, and guidance at a time when all are in short supply. Bregman’s version of our century is ever so much better than the one around us, and so we should all read, consider, and act.”
    Timothy Snyder, #1 New York Times bestselling author of On Tyranny

On Sale
May 6, 2025
Page Count
288 pages
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-13
9780316580359

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“A career consists of 2,000 workweeks. How you spend that time is one of the most vital decisions of your life. Still, millions of people are stuck in mind-numbing, pointless, or just plain harmful jobs. There’s an antidote to this waste of talent, and it’s called moral ambition.”

—Rutger Bregman

Rutger Bregman

About the Author

Rutger Bregman is a Dutch historian and co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition, an organization that helps ambitious people work on the most important global problems. His books Utopia for Realists and Humankind have been translated into 46 languages and have sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. He lives in New York City.

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