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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Noah Harari
Whoah. This is one of those rare books that can completely change your perspective on the cosmically important issues that we confront in contemporary times. And that level of change can also completely change who you are as a person. Harari might be one of the clearest thinkers ever, and is certainly one of the clearest of those that I've read thus far. This book will terrify you and then bring you back "down to Earth" with a downright comforting level of emotional detachment. Stick with it through to the end-- you might find his prescription for how to deal with "the age of bewilderment" a bit anticlimactic, but part of that prescription also includes an acknowledgement that nobody really knows what's going to happen. This is the first time in human history that all of the prevailing narratives of the arc of history seem so discredited-- calm down, take a deep breath, accept all of the uncertainty, and maybe you'll start to see opportunity instead.