Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent & Start Making a Difference

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🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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What if your ambition could actually make the world better? Are you chasing success—or significance? This week, bestselling author Rutger Bregman discusses his new book, Moral Ambition, a provocative call to stop wasting your talent on meaningless work and start solving the world’s biggest problems. Together, they explore how redefining "success" can unlock your full potential—not just for yourself, but for the world. If you’ve ever felt stuck in work that doesn’t matter, this episode will challenge you to aim higher. Watch the episode on YouTube⁠⁠ Apply to The School for Moral Ambition | Get your copy of Moral Ambition: https://amzn.to/4maZuO3 Ask Andrew anything by sending us your text and voice memos to ⁠[email protected]⁠! ---- Follow Andrew Yang: ⁠⁠Blue Sky⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠X⁠⁠ Follow Rutger Bregman: Website | X ---- Get 50% off Factor at ⁠⁠Factor Meals⁠⁠ Get an extra 3 months free at ⁠⁠Express VPN⁠⁠ Get 20% off + 2 free pillows at ⁠⁠Helix Sleep⁠⁠ | Use code: helixpartner20 ---- Subscribe to the Andrew Yang Podcast: ⁠⁠Apple⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on the Andrew Yang podcast.
0:04.0	I think the important thing to emphasize though is that we are looking for a moral maximum.
0:10.0	There are lots of movements out there that are about moral minimums.
0:14.0	You donate a little bit to charity.
0:16.0	You do a little bit of volunteers work.
0:18.0	And I'm not against that, right?
0:20.0	The whole, I don't know,
0:21.3	doing good by doing well attitude. But I think we live in an era of human history right now
0:26.6	where just the minimum is not enough anymore.
0:35.2	It is my distinct pleasure to welcome back to the podcast, philosopher, author of, you
0:42.2	might know these books, Utopia for Realists and Humankind, and of the brand new book,
0:48.4	Moral Ambition, Dutch philosopher, Rucker Bregman.
0:52.5	Thanks for having me, Andrew.
0:53.9	It's great to be with you in person now.
0:56.2	Yes, it's great to have you too. So you moved to New York recently. Yep, in September of last year.
1:01.4	Yeah. That is wild. So you and I met at TED what feels like a million years ago and you were one of the
1:08.4	preeminent champions of universal basic income. Yeah. It feels like
1:12.7	a century ago, doesn't it? Feel free to look up Rutgers TED Talk. I had much more hair back
1:17.8	then. One of the most fun things was I think it's like poverty is not a lack of character. It's a
1:22.6	lack of cash. I couldn't agree more. So you and I have been fellow travelers on the UBI road.
1:28.3	Utopia for Realists did a great job making that case.
1:31.3	Yeah, it's such a, it feels like such a long time ago because also, you know, the
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