Rutger Bregman

Moral Ambition

How to Find Your Purpose

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Produktbeschreibung

Every day we're 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 won't make your life easier - but it should make it more meaningful. The question is: what will you do with it?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm
• ISBN-13: 9781526685551
• ISBN-10: 1526685558
• Artikelnr.: 75289412

Autorenporträt

Rutger Bregman, a historian and writer at the Correspondent, is one of Europe's 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.

Rezensionen

His appeal is very much to the high-flyer, looking for a cause that will give the fullest moral satisfaction ... Yet he is also admirably realistic about the need to park one's own desire for a certain kind of sainthood, to accept the need for ordinary self-care so as to avoid falling victim either to burnout or - worse - to one's own mythology, and to remain clear about what measurable differences might look like ... Offers a bracingly hopeful perspective, insisting on the necessity of doing all you can to allow yourself to be sensitised and resensitised to that which eats away at the dignity not only of humanity but (an important element in Bregman's argument) of the entire living environment Guardian

A rallying cry ... His appeal is very much to the high-flyer, looking for a cause that will give the fullest moral satisfaction ... Yet he is also admirably realistic about the need to park one's own desire for a certain kind of sainthood, to accept the need for ordinary self-care so as to avoid falling victim either to burnout or – worse – to one's own mythology, and to remain clear about what measurable differences might look like ... Offers a bracingly hopeful perspective, insisting on the necessity of doing all you can to allow yourself to be sensitised and resensitised to that which eats away at the dignity not only of humanity but (an important element in Bregman's argument) of the entire living environment