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Morele ambitie: Stop met het verspillen van je talent en maak werk van je idealen

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

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And if you don't feel like you're among the richest people on the planet, think of the words of the old Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky: 'Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.'

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Moral Ambition: How to Find Your Purpose – the Guide to Making the Most out of your 80,000 Hours at Work

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Changing the world often starts in the quiet places, where others don't think to go.

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The invention of the bicycle gave women more freedom of movement than ever, and the famous suffragist Susan B. Anthony considered a woman riding a bike 'the picture of untrammelled womanhood'. The bicycle did away with 'old-fashioned, slow-going notions of the gentler sex', according to a Nebraska newspaper in 1895, and paved the way for 'some new woman, mounted on her steed of steel'.

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When asked who held the patent to his vaccine [Dr Salk], he famously replied, 'Well, the people, I'd say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?'.
Today, polio is nearly eradicated.

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One thing's certain: scientific innovations have saved more lives than all the Malalas, Mandelas, and Mother Theresas combined.
That's why it's especially tragic that so many whiz kids spend their time building pointless apps and algorithms. If we want to take on the big challenges of our time, we're going to need an army of morally ambitious science geeks.

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four main ingredients of moral ambition:

1 the idealism of an activist

2 the ambition of a startup founder

3 the analytical mind of a scientist

4 the humility of a monk

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"That element of serendipity in Rob's big career switch makes me hopeful. You don't have to play the Good Samaritan all your life to make a difference. You can be your average exec in your average company one day, and then take the lead in fighting one of the world's deadliest diseases the next. You can catch the moral ambition bug and start to transform your life and career."

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"Much of modern protest seems too fleeting. Heavy on intuition, light on strategy. Heavy on intentions, light on results. 'Being on the right side of history, writes Tufekci, doesn't insulate one from weak analyses.'"

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