Best of Think '25: How to have a career that matters
Think from KERA
KERA
4.7 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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If the 9-to-5 grind gets you down, maybe it’s time to do more with your life. Rutger Bregman, historian and co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why so many people feel like their jobs don’t make a difference in the world and how we can instead use our talent and education to focus on the world’s biggest problems. His book is “Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference.”
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| 0:00.0 | There is new research on pleasure that actually is fascinating, and the site OMGS makes it accessible to everyone. |
| 0:09.1 | OMGS shares findings from the largest ever study into women's pleasure and intimacy. |
| 0:15.1 | In partnership with researchers at Indiana University and at Yale, they asked tens of thousands of couples what they wished they |
| 0:21.5 | had discovered sooner. They found patterns in those discoveries, and all that wisdom about pleasure |
| 0:27.2 | and intimacy is organized as hundreds of short videos, animations, and how-toes on omg.com. |
| 0:34.0 | And guess what? Half of OMGES users are men. Men are curious about this stuff too, scientific research-backed techniques make it happen, we can usually come up with reasons why. |
| 1:07.2 | We lack the kind of talent that gets rewarded with fame, or maybe we didn't get the sort of |
| 1:11.5 | education likely to deliver fortune. Or maybe the problem is that we aspire to the wrong things. |
| 1:18.8 | From KERA in Dallas, this is think. I'm Chris Boyd. Regardless of whatever material rewards our work |
| 1:25.7 | delivers, the most satisfying careers |
| 1:28.6 | tend to be the ones that make the world better. |
| 1:31.2 | And my guest believes that many more of us could have those rewards if we taste purpose |
| 1:35.8 | rather than profit. |
| 1:37.5 | Rutger Bregman is a historian and co-founder of the School for Moral Ambition. |
| 1:42.7 | His book is called Moral Ambition. Stop wasting your talent and start |
| 1:46.2 | making a difference. All this week, we're listening back to our favorite shows of 2025. |
| 1:52.3 | I know the end of the year is an opportunity for many of you to take stock of where you are in |
| 1:56.9 | your lives and your career and maybe even make a change. |
| 2:05.7 | And so my hope is that if that's you, this conversation might help you along a new path. |
| 2:07.2 | Rudger, welcome to think. |
| 2:09.6 | Thanks so much for having me. |
| 2:12.0 | What is moral ambition exactly? |
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