MORAL AMBITION: Are You Wasting Your Talent?
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LinkedIn presents. I'm Rufus Griscomb and this is the next big idea. Today, how to stop wasting your talent and start making a difference. Here's a question that gnaws at me. Maybe you too.
Am I doing enough to help solve the world's problems? I recycle, I tip relatively well, I sometimes help neighbors with luggage when they're struggling on the stairs. Nice gestures, but let's be honest, they barely move the moral needle. Meanwhile, the planet heats, pandemics lurk, and inequality yawns. Am I generous?
I'm generous to my kids, to my friends and family, to street musicians. But these are all common gestures that pay back dividends to me. Here's the question that haunts me. Am I, or are we, coasting on low-stakes virtue while the real work goes undone? My guest today, Rutker Bregman, thinks so, and he's here to jolt us awake.
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