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    21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Summarized for Busy People: Based on the Book by Yuval Noah Harari
    21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Summarized for Busy People: Based on the Book by Yuval Noah Harari
    21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Summarized for Busy People: Based on the Book by Yuval Noah Harari
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    21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Summarized for Busy People: Based on the Book by Yuval Noah Harari

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    This book summary and analysis was created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version.

    How can the rise of technology change our lives? How do we handle the spread of fake news? How can our nations and religions maintain their relevance? What can we teach our children about the future?

    21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari looks into the most pressing issues that we face today as a global nation as we move towards the uncertainty of the future. With each advancement in technology, it can be used especially as a weapon of war—and now, we live in a world that’s more polarized than before. Harari shows the challenges there are in moving through our lives amid the constant change and distortion, but we have to ask the right questions in order to survive.

    Throughout the chapters, Harari will move through the provocative thoughts that have been asked in his previous books—be it political, technological, social, or existential—and he offers advice on how to manage this change of which future we are not aware of. How can we retain our freedom amid daunting and even dangerous technology? What does the future look like for us and how can we ready for it? How can we stay safe despite the threat of terrorism? Why is liberal democracy in danger?

    Harari seeks to understand where we came from and where we are going and this captured the imagination of millions of readers around the globe. Here, he invites us to begin questioning our values, beliefs, and meaning in a world full of illusions and lies. We are bombarded with information but clarity is power. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century becomes an important read especially in tackling the contemporary challenges that arise in today’s global state.

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    PublisherGoldmine Reads
    Release dateMar 1, 2019
    ISBN9788832528374
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      21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Summarized for Busy People - Goldmine Reads

      21 LESSONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

      Summarized For Busy People

      Based on the Book by Yuval Noah Harari

      Goldmine Reads

      Copyright © Goldmine Reads

      All Rights reserved. No part of this text may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the copyright holder.

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      Respective authors own all copyrights not held by the publisher.

      TABLE OF CONTENT

      21 LESSONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

      BOOK OVERVIEW

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      ABOUT THIS BOOK SUMMARY

      PART ONE:  THE TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGE

      Chapter 1: Disillusionment

      Chapter 2: Work

      Chapter 3: Liberty

      Chapter 4: Equality

      PART TWO:  THE POLITICAL CHALLENGE

      Chapter 5: Community

      Chapter 6: Civilization

      Chapter 7: Nationalism

      Chapter 8: Religion

      Chapter 9: Immigration

      PART THREE:  DESPAIR AND HOPE

      Chapter 10: Terrorism

      Chapter 11: War

      Chapter 12: Humility

      Chapter 13: God

      Chapter 14: Secularism

      PART FOUR:  TRUTH

      Chapter 15: Ignorance

      Chapter 16: Justice

      Chapter 17: The Post-Truth Era

      Chapter 18: Science Fiction

      PART FIVE:  RESILIENCE

      Chapter 19: Education

      Chapter 20: Meaning

      Chapter 21: Meditation

      EDITORIAL REVIEW

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      BOOK OVERVIEW

      21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari is a collection of essays that address the current predicament the modern human faces, the future she faces, and what she can do about it. After Sapiens—chronicling the history of the entire human species—and Homo Deus—looking ahead to a largely dystopian future, 21 Lessons focuses on what we can do in the present.

      The book divides into five parts with each chapter—or lesson—talking about a particular topic. The book opens to an investigation into the current problem of the world; from the breakdown of liberal democracy in the midst of populism and nationalism to the possible danger of artificial intelligence and increasingly invasive technology. Harari shows the potential consequences of both AI and bioengineering—admitting that we currently have no solution for these possible consequences.

      His scope broadens throughout the book, focusing on God, religion, secularism, capitalism, and other beliefs that hold humankind together. He looks into human history and provides proof for his claims. Ultimately. His goal is to explore the reason behind why we create such stories that give meaning to our world and how we can move forward with the new story of humanity.

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      An Israeli historian and tenured professor in the history department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Yuval Noah Harari specialized in medieval history and military history at the same university. He later completed his doctorate degree at Jesus College, Oxford in 2002.

      Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind was his first major book, first published in Hebrew before being translated to more than 30 languages, which became an international bestseller. He followed it up with Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow which was placed in the top ten non-fiction books of 2017 by Time magazine.

      Harari lives in a moshav, a cooperative community of agricultural farms, with his husband outside of Jerusalem. He practices Vipassana meditation two hours every day and attends a 30-day retreat at least once a year.

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