Rutger Bregman: What are we actually doing with our lives?
23 January - 1 hour 8 minsFrom calling out billionaires at Davos to challenging institutions that would rather stay comfortable, Rutger Bregman has built a career around one simple question: what are we actually doing with our lives?
In this episode of Full Disclosure, James O’Brien sits down with the historian and author of Moral Ambition to talk about purpose, power and the quiet pressure to go along with things we know are wrong. Bregman reflects on his upbringing, his loss of religious faith, and how that search for meaning became a drive to make ideas matter in the real world.
They discuss why small groups of people have always been the engine of change, how ego and idealism often overlap, and why so many smar...
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