Humankind

Best Of: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference

The Next Big Idea, 26 October 2026. The author is the guest. The book comes up at 2 min 0 sec in.

Host Rufus Griscom introduces Humankind as Bregman's "colossal bestseller" and a Next Big Idea Club selection. Bregman describes it as a synthesis of anthropology, psychology, sociology, and history arguing humans are not innately selfish. He then voices concern that some readers used its optimism as justification to disengage—people saying "my faith in humanity is restored" and tuning out the news—which partly drove him to write Moral Ambition.

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