Jacqueline Novogratz

Redefining Success: A Pandemic Talk Hits 3M Views

When my book Manifesto for a Moral Revolution came out, I was preparing for a 14-city tour and a TED talk. Then Covid happened. The tour was canceled. @TEDTalks moved online. And I ended up doing my talk straight to an iPhone at home. I had no choice, really, but to follow the book's advice and redefine success. A friend just told me the talk crossed 3 million views, which felt a bit bonkers. But maybe it is a small signal that something is changing. The talk is about three principles that I've learned are essential to solving our toughest problems: moral imagination, holding opposing values in tension, and accompaniment. The ideas may sound lyrical or soft or even small, but I promise they are not. And in this time when so many are hungry for purpose, meaning and community, maybe this is a conversation waiting to be had.