What is better than moral ambition? Chasing ducks?

A Harvard lecture on what is moral ambition

I was listening to a Harvard lecture by Rutka Bradman the other day and it was about how intellectually gifted students or intellectually superior part of the population end up in doing some mediocre selfish game played in corporates, finance, And other fixed categories of workforce in our society. According to him majority of these people by the end of their life, are not happy about what they have done or accomplished in their careers so the alternative he gives in this speech is having a moral ambition which is: Finding a suitable sizable solvable and utterly neglected problems in the society and try to find a solution for these problems for the great good of humanity. As an example, climate change, hunger, poverty, ethnic clash traditional capitalism etc.

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Moral Ambition? Or truth?

I thought about this for a moment It seems very nice thing to morally pursuit if someone is not inclined for absolute truth in the world. I would say second best option is having a moral ambition like Rutka mentioned. And I'm sure nobody wants a second-best option in Life as when we play any game we want to be first right? So, what is the first and foremost thing to pursuit in any life? I think it is the truth. Because whenever you're getting closer and closer to the truth riding asymptote in life the happiness and the feeling of success and even the feeling of moral ambition gets heightened. Sometimes you may never come across to 100% truth in life yet the pathway to finding out truth about your existence or it's nonexistence, truth about your selfish ambitions, mystery about afterlife if it is there, seeking these things early in your life even if you are struggling, make you more clarified about your current status of mind as well as current pursuits of mind.

Is chasing ducks in a lake better than moral ambition?

Imagine a thing which you pursue, let it be moral ambition or other, which doesn't matter at the end of the life, on your death bed, why does it matter now? Why does it matter a moral ambition if there is nothing called moral ambition in the nature? Don't get me wrong I'm not asking you to be selfish and stop your charity, just being rational and trying to understand our deep core reasons for doing anything. It Is far more superior to just being selfish.

If I can spend a perfectly content comfortable life sitting on a bench under a tree near an isolated lake full of ducks, isn't that something to pursuit? Is it wrong to pursuit something like that without getting distracted by moral ambition? These are the questions that I asked myself whenever my mind tries to create a future which is far beyond what is expected from anyone's life. I think what is expected from any human life is inclination to strengthen the effort to reach as much as possible to the Truth in the world, during the lifetime and I only see very few people talk about these truths without being prejudiced by the stories of the creators of the past or even seekers of the past. but any individuals journey is very unique, and we cannot compare to anyone else's in the past.