21 LESSONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY with Yuval Noah Harari | The James Altucher Show
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- Yuval Harari is the expert on human evolution. I've recommended his book "Sapiens" more than any other book in the past 5 years. And now Yuval has a brand new book, "21 Lessons for The 21st Century," which covers so many topics: he tells us what you start can doing now to feel more comfortable and prepared for all these changes🔥
In 21 Lessons For The 21st Century, Yuval explore so many topics: “the myth of free will,” the rise of robots, algorithms, hackers, how the Automation Revolution will impact the economy, your job, your quality of life and so on.
Plus, he also gives solutions. And they’re all worth contemplating. This interview is probably the most thought-provoking interview I’ve ever aired.
Here’s 3 things Yuval Noah Harari made me question:
A) Are we actually better off?
Yuval says “Life was much more colorful and rich 10,000 years ago.”
We foraged. We climbed trees. We weren’t sitting at desks or managing cash register machines. We were moving.
But history books have branded the Agricultural Revolution as a good thing. A “revolution.” But Yuval argues that farming and harvesting wheat was actually a negative to the species in many ways.
It’s both.
Positive: we can feed more people.
Negative: our diet changes to wheat-based instead of plants, vegetables, etc. And our brains might have shrunk as a result of us only be aware of the space around us and not the greater landscape, which lead to city-states and kingdoms and war. Because we fought each other for resources.
And Yuval says life as a hunter-gatherer is far more interesting than some of the mundane jobs of the 21st century.
And Yuval has other examples.
How many “revolutions” are actually net-negatives?
B) What happens if I’m not the main character?
Everyday, I think about my day. What am I going to do? What do I want to eat? Where am I going?
Yuval said, “Every time you change your perspective, you see a completely different world.”
“Don’t look at from the viewpoint of the king. look at from the viewpoint of the peasant. Don’t look at from the viewpoint of the human. Look at it from the viewpoint of the cow.”
C) Is free will a myth?
Yuval says free will is a myth.
“People know so little about themselves,” he said. “Both on the biological level, certainly. How many people really understand their brains? But even on the psychological level… we have an entire profession of therapists who are just trying to help us get in touch with ourselves because it’s so difficult.”
Yuval says that free will only exists if you know what your will actually is. But if you everything want in life comes from school, your parents, cultural manipulation, advertising, propaganda, etc., then do you really have your own desires?
“Once you realize, no, my desires don’t reflect my free will, they reflect all kinds of processes on the biological level, on the psychological level, which I don’t understand, then you start being very curious about yourself.”
His book and this interview leads to so many new questions. Which is the essense of growth. Learning comes from wondering.
Yuval will make you young again.
He’ll make you curious again.
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Links and Resources
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
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Yuval’s course on Coursera
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always a pleasure to listen to this man
thanks for listening!
Yuval doesn't have a smart phone. I love the 20th century value of reading books, guarding his attention, and engaging with other people, and "getting to know yourself", as he warns us about the 21st century.
With “getting to know yourself” he practices two hours of Vipassana meditation- 1 hour in the morning and an hour at the end of the day. He also goes on a 60 day silent meditation retreat- and I can tell you from experience that a two week long silent retreat, it’s amazingly difficult until your mind is so in the moment that the feeling of basically being aware of those states of intense flow, wherein the ego is understood to be an illusion and the worries and such in a way that is very similar to waking up from a dream - and once you have been in that state it is really interesting that it is a key skill especially now we’re hackable brings.
Brilliant interview. Kudos to the interviewer for asking questions that a lot of us were thinking about as we were watching. This was very insightful:)
agreed! awesome conversation between these two
What an awesome interviewer.
I like how Yuval explains something so complicated with such simple words. That's the true meaning of being smart.
I agree. ☺️. When explaining things, make it as simple as possible. But no simpler. I love that line from Albert Einstein.
That's the perk of having to express yourself in a second language. ;-)
Not to deny the genius of the man, of course.
you're absolutely correct! einstein said something similar.
Yuval is Legend
He's right about the fact that the collective is stronger than the individual. I hope the west realizes that soon. Always nice hearing Mr. Harari. :)
I've belated finished Sapiens and look forward to Homo Deus and anything else Mr. Harari writes. Thanks!
my favorite podcast
I have to say, this is probably the best interview I’ve seen with the brilliant mr. Harari. I’ve seen a few. Thanks!
I have to agree, the interviewer added to the experience. I just subscribed to his podcast.
I like this man more than any educator😍😍
Yuval has no smart phone but we all watching him on you tube .
“You also have to go out in the offline world.”
“What?”
🤣🤣🤣
:D you mean there's a world... OUTSIDE???
Yuval at his best again.... Spontaneous answers with such a clarity, still consistent with his views.
James handled the talk well.
Almost half of the session is about Yuval earlier works.
Very few themes of this books are kinda getting repeated in all his talks. There is much more perspective in the book, which requires in depth discussion.
I liked the question towards the end, related to Yuval writing trajectory, which suddenly changed with his last three books. Yuval answer to that and being honest about the luck factor and the help of his husband, makes him really great. I hope to see yuvals great work continue and world political leaders take his ideas seriously.
Love all
His books! Learnt so much!
Two things strike me as... bypassed in prof Harari's suggestions.
1) Inequality is not recognized as one of the biggest problems of the world, even in the context of "need" for more effective global governance. It comes up, but it's not integrated in the big-problem collage.
2) The suggestion of pursuing more effective global governance is not based on some argument; it just appears to be the obvious way forward. Effectively, such a course makes data-corporations (internet giants) a de facto political lobbying factor, one on which countries accept their dependence on and try to control, actually without understanding; all this is no different than corporatism is already accomplishing, but on a more successful basis. But, in essence, it would be more sensible to slow down on globalization and especially on data-globalization. Demand barriers on data flows and tax them. Demand that personal data are stored in a person's selected country and that transmitting them, or calculating on them, or training AI on them is taxed, on top of requiring the person's authorization.
Exactly the point of agricultural revolution being good for the specie but not for individual. Just as industrial farming caused proliferation of chicken as species but caused enormous suffering to the individual chicken.
BAM!!!!!! IT'S YUVAL TIME.
Congrats to the interviewer: Great job.
they both did great. i'm glad you noticed it!
finally an adequate, intelligent interviewer. yuval, and elon musk both, they talk to everyone! so many cringeworthy moments along the way. thanks, james, for this sensible interview!
to be fair: russell brand's interview with him was equally good.
Great and engaging
"Wheat domesticated humans"...whoa, that's a powerful perspective!
look up the podcast Rewild Yourself
Did James really ask Yuval about Tony the Tiger? LOL at the 11:00 minute mark!
Linda Gottschalk yep. James is awesome that way.
It would be more acessible if you put a caption in portuguese :]
What escapes me is why we should save humanity if the computers are more capable than us. Wouldn’t it be better to phase over the course of the next 200-300 years and let the machines continue without us???
If AI is indeed going to become as most fear, than it would be out of our hands anyway. AI will definitely continue without us.
There's no guarantee that machines will ever develop consciousness, so if we allow machines to continue on without us risk allowing the universe to devolve into a lifeless void. One of the best chances we have is to instead merge ourselves with machines, through things like brain-computer interfaces and to ensure that the machines values align with our values...much like how a parent strives to have their child's value align with theirs to a degree, lest there be conflict
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Lol!
Argentinian: football fan
English: football hooligan.
Globalization IS inevitable. Nationalism will stay as it is.But people will be able to cooperate more globally if there is a common culture to identify and connect each other.To achieve that commonality , we must institute the universal education of morals ethics manners and rights & responsibilities globally.
The important thing to have a unifying identity rather than religious special identity that divides human beings.
With that common elements wether you are poor or rich, noble or begger, Elite or common, scholars or non scholars--we all will have some thing, to be decently part of the group.
SO LESS PREJUDICE, LESS BIASES AND LESS IGNORANT GENERAL JUDGEMENTS...WITH OUT FULL KNOWLEDGE OF FACTS IN TIME...SPACE...SITUATION...AND ENVIRONMENTS...!!!
Good point. Many see the danger in form of globalization as a kind of internationalsocialism where only some big companies will profit (corporatism) and small business is wiped out.
Please, help me I would like one in hiding or I care and focus on reading 🙏🏼😊.
The example for Yuvals tendency to go against norms was badly chosen. The idea of the agricultural revolution as a worsening of life quality for most people is really quite old i akademia and was put forth in the 60’s iirc.
Just a thought... Is it possible to create a community, say the Yuvals 😋, who want to create a geo political system which would remove the nationalism, fascism and start a movement towards a new global geo-political system which units the whole world under single geo-political system and rules aimed at tackling the global issues like AI, tech disruption and climate change
not in another Mellienium!
In the future, humans will be considered nothing but bio-data, and they will be treated accordingly.
Yuval can have thousands of such an intellectual conversation, but he will not affect the consciousness of humanity or solve humanities problems. Because as Einstein said "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." Which means you must abandon your old mind, so a new mind can use thinking to solve our problems; also it is such a mind that can have compassion and love.
Eddie Kianana2014 this man is giving a new way of thinking, quit thinking about the next days and instead think of the next decade
Mickey Williams: Mickey Williams: I agree, he has opened a dialogue, which has a great importance but those who are interviewing him are using his fame to advance their own reputation. I wish there was an honest conversation about how dangerous we have become to ourselves and to each other, so as long their motives are self-aggrandizement, reputation, and self-interest they will not expose their own corruptions, which will be the corruption of all of us; we will not take on this fundamental and existential problem of our mind. Watch this video of him, at one point he will say that, some scientist are saying that our mind is full of pollution, which is amazing acknowledgement and it is a fact, at least for me. th-cam.com/video/Lt7votAzI78/w-d-xo.html
@@edris47 even if people are using Yuval's fame to advance their own reputation (which I disagree), a side effect is that Yuval's message gets distributed to an ever more diverse audience.
free will is a myth and love is "just a biological mechanism"
dude youre a historian
he dumped all that dough on equipment + the sound is terrible. i get better sound with my galaxy 7
God establishes the progress of science and technology to help people free from ignorance. Thank you, Jesus Christ.
what a fool you are ass hole
You're free to believe what you want, but to leave EVERYTHING at the feet of your savior is the epitome of laziness. Jesus never said "Ok, I'll give humanity a Polio Vaccine in 1955. not a day before." Just sitting back in your chair and saying "God will make science an technology progress" will just result in you never contributing to that progress.
Also @Heisenberg Bad calling someone you think is foolish an asshole, just make you the asshole
if we are close to Jesus Christ, our response will always be good and right.
haha, no
it doesnt go like that
favored by God and humans.
All agriculture gave humanity was mass-produced cheap human labor.
Yea, well, questions are allright and mr. Harrari has approached some from interesting viewpoints. But the moment he starts giving answers, science gets thrown´out of the window. No evidence, no research, no data, wishfull thinking and lots of empty words. Sci-fiction. Sorry.
For a chimpanzee, an allen key from my toolbox has approximatly the same value as a dolar bill from my vallet. Zero, nothing it could do with it. Can't eat it, wear it... So why do I get mad when I can't find that useless piece of metal? Maybe I should blame mr. Allen for making everbody believe this hexagonal narrative! Who knows. But I seriously doubt computers, mr Harrari, chimpanzees or indeed I will tell me where I put it. Stories, tell me some...
This didn’t age well.
He is so full of chit!! He's a liar!!