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Apr 21, 2025
"This is what we call Moral Imagination—the humility to see the world as it is and the audacity to imagine what it could be."
—Jacqueline Novogratz
At age 25, Jacqueline Novogratz left a Wall Street career to co-found a microfinance bank in Rwanda. Read about a life-changing experience that was a turning point in which she said, “Every one of us has monsters and angels within us—light and dark. Our job is to feed the angels and suppress the monsters, both individually and systemically.” She went on to found a global network that helps social entrepreneurs “use the tools of business not just for profit, but to solve real problems.” It is not about “solving problems for them, but holding the problems with them.” Conventional thinking in the capitalist system is to “make money here and give it away there.” This was the opposite. “At first, people called us crazy, naïve, idealistic.” “But I’ve learned that when they call you crazy, it usually means you’re onto something.”
Practice one of Jacqueline's suggested skills: Hold opposing ideas in tension. What possibilities emerge?