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Moral Ambition

Rutger Bregman

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Rutger Bregman argues that your career is not a personal preference but an ethical act. In *Moral Ambition*, the Dutch historian calculates the roughly 80,000 hours you'll spend working and asks why society's most talented people drift toward high-paying sectors with minimal impact instead of solving urgent problems. Drawing on the principles of effective altruism and rational giving, Bregman offers a practical framework for redirecting your skills toward maximum difference rather than maximum salary.

You'll learn:

- Why conventional success metrics fail the ethics test

- How to calculate your career's true impact potential

- The rational giving principles that multiply your contribution

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