This is episode number two fifty three with Will McCaskill.

Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Louis Howe's former pro athlete

turned lifestyle entrepreneur. In each week we bring you an inspiring person or

message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness. Thanks for spending

some time with me today. Now let the class begin.

Now Will McCaskill raised over four hundred million dollars in donations with

both his charities. So this is all about giving. He's got a new book out as

well for me greatness is about making the maximum amount of impact in the world

and without further ado let's go ahead and dive in this episode with Will McCaskill.

Welcome back everyone to the School of Greatness podcast. Very excited about our

guest his name is Will McCaskill. How's it going Will? Yeah it's going really well.

Thanks so much for having me on. Yeah thanks for being here man and you just had a

book come out recently in the US called Doing Good Better. It's on effective

altruism and how you can make a difference and I'm all about making a difference.

You know I've got a book that's out right now that's all about leaving a

legacy and living a bigger and better life. So I appreciate the work you're

doing and tell me why did you decide to write this book your professor over in

the UK correct? Yeah that's fine professor of philosophy at Oxford and I started

to get interested in these ideas because I thought about the problem of global

poverty for quite a while and I kind of thought yeah I really should be doing

something about this but had never really kind of acted on it until I started

working as a fundraiser for this international charity. So as one of those

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