Moral Ambition: How to Find Your Purpose

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Every day were bombarded with methods, mantras, life hacks and coaching sessions that promise us mindfulness, prosperity and wellness. We read countless self-help books to unlock the seven habits, twelve rules or one big secret to living a long and happy life, while time and talent remain some of our most squandered resources. The average full-time worker will spend 80,000 hours at their job: are you making the most of them Do you truly believe in what you do, day in day out

Internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman shows us that with moral ambition the will to make the world a wildly better place it is possible to be both idealistic and successful, and to change the world along the way. Looking to the great change-makers of history, he uncovers the qualities that made them so persuasive, influential and effective, and shows how we, too, can lend our talents to the biggest challenges of our time, from climate change to gross inequality to the next pandemic. With moral ambition, we can do more than be on the right side of history: we can make history itself.

This is not a self-help book. It wont make your life easier but it should make it more meaningful. The question is: what will you do with it

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I believe [Rutger] calls himself a historian, hes not. Hes a revolutionary in a sensible coat -- Russell Crowe
Rutger Bregman has become the voice in my head -- Jameela Jamil

Author Bio

Rutger Bregman, a historian and writer at the Correspondent, is one of Europes most prominent young thinkers. His book Utopia for Realists was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and has been translated into thirty-two languages. His follow-up, Humankind, was also a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and received praise from Stephen Fry, Yuval Noah Harari and Grace Blakeley amongst others. He lives in New York.