A review by redcephei
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

informative reflective

4.75

It's a great book. It's a nonfiction but it's written like a thriller. I kept wanting to know more and I procrastinated reading the last chapter because I didn't want it to end. It helped rekindle my curiosity for life. I liked the chapter on happiness throughout history and the different lenses provided. The psychological findings that happiness isn't dependent on money past a threshold since it becomes a part of your routine, and not affected by painless and non-fatal ailments, instead by expectations, the biological theory that it is instead dictated by genetic factors and Buddhist teachings about happiness being reappraised as not something worth chasing but as another part of life. I never thought I'd be mad about the agricultural revolution before reading this. Would be 5 stars but the last chapter felt rushed and the book could've ended on a better, less doomy note.