Are you morally ambitious?
- jeanne7629
- Jul 4, 2025
- 1 min read
Updated: Jul 12, 2025
I was so grateful to my mentor for sharing this inspiring and energising podcast with me last week. If there is one thing I will remember from it, it's this line: "Moral ambition is contagious.”
The episod challenged something I’ve been wrestling with for a while: the growing gap between talking about change and actually doing something. The host spoke about how easy it is to get stuck in the awareness phase (reposting, liking/reacting, rallying behind slogans) but not moving beyond that into real action.
An interesting parallel he made was to the abolitionist movement: a reminder that change takes moral courage, but also structure. It takes people asking one another to step up and do something together. That’s what we’re trying to create with Think Again: a space not just for critical thinking, but for deliberate, values-driven action.
He also voiced a frustration I share where calls to “overthrow the system” can become a kind of cover for inaction. The slogans get louder, but the substance gets thinner. It’s a reminder to stay grounded, to keep asking: What am I actually doing? What are we building?
Interestingly, the guest on the podcast was Rutger Bregman and I realised I’ve had his book Utopia for Realists sitting on my shelf for ages. One of those books I really wanted to read, and yet somehow never picked up. Do you ever have that? This episode felt like the nudge I needed! I’ll definitely be reading it now.
This was only part one of the episode, I’m looking forward to listening to part two in the next few days.
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