Are You Wasting Your Talent? (Why Moral Ambition Matters)
Squiggly Careers
AmazingIf
4.9 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I do think as you go through this, for most people, it is quite confronting. |
| 0:04.1 | I think it will encourage you to ask some provoking questions. |
| 0:08.1 | It is a really good read. |
| 0:09.1 | Actually, it's a really inspiring read. |
| 0:11.3 | But at the same time, sometimes those people who have changed the world can make you also feel like I'm so far away from that. |
| 0:18.4 | Yes. |
| 0:21.3 | So here's definition of moral ambition. This is what I'm like, prepare yourself. |
| 0:25.0 | It's the longing to make a difference and to leave a legacy. |
| 0:28.8 | You don't do good things because you're a good person. |
| 0:31.2 | You become a good person by doing good things. |
| 0:33.8 | Okay, we've got heavy. |
| 0:35.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.7 | But I would say that the majority of people, they're probably |
| 0:40.4 | not necessarily consciously thinking about some of these world's biggest problems every day. Yeah, |
| 0:44.7 | I'm probably not going to work every day going, I'm so ambitious. The bullshit job thing. |
| 0:48.6 | I have a little bit of friction with that term, but I think I understand what he's trying to do, |
| 0:52.5 | which he's saying, |
| 0:56.6 | Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah. |
| 1:04.1 | And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast, where every week we get curious and use our conversation to turn that curiosity into action to support you in your squiggly career. |
| 1:08.5 | And we're borrowing brilliance from lots of different things. |
| 1:10.9 | It could be people. |
| 1:12.2 | So we've done one with Richard Feynman, a physicist. |
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