21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Are you imagining the future correctly? September 19, 2018 [WEBSITE]( | [UNSUBSCRIBE]( [Altucher Confidential] “Learning comes from wondering.” [James Altucher and Guest] [Now playing: PODCAST]( [Charts illustrating massive gains](Former Hedge Fund Manager JAMES ALTUCHER Reveals the Incredible Results of His Latest Testing… This Highly Accurate Stock Market Signal Can Double Your Money Every 60 Days or Less… [Click Here Now for the Full Details…]( “Right now, there is somebody out there who is trying to hack you. And not just one…” WHAT!? “Amazon is trying to hack you. Google is trying to hack you. Coca-Cola is trying to hack you and the Russians, the American government, the Chinese… They are all trying to hack you right now,” Yuval Noah Harari said on my podcast. But there are different levels of hacking. Amazon wants to sell you stuff. We all know that. But when does it start to get darker? And how can we protect ourselves? I was asking Yuval because this is one of the things he writes about in his new book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, which Bill Gates recommended in a New York Times article last week. Yuval is an expert in human evolution. Past, present and future. He writes international bestsellers about our species. And no. Yuval does not know Bill Gates. I asked him. They’ve never spoken. I’ve recommended his book, Sapiens, more than any other book in the past five years. Mark Zuckerberg and Barack Obama are also advocates of Yuval’s books. That’s a quadfecta. There’s a huge pyramid of research beneath each story Yuval writes about. Part of that comes from him being a history professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. But it wasn’t always this way. Yuval used to write about things NOBODY cared about. “What happened in your life where you decided to be the smartest person on the planet?” I asked. “I feel like eight years ago you must’ve had a tumor or a stroke. Because you were writing about knights and medieval fighting and then suddenly you write the three smartest books ever written.” “One thing is that I got tenure at the university,” he said. “I could do whatever I wanted. And I no longer had to feel the publish or perish pressure.” “But a lot of people get tenure,” I said. “Yeah, that’s true, but for many people it’s too late. By the time they get tenure, they forgot what they really wanted to do. And somehow, I still remembered.” That’s how we got the trilogy: Sapiens, Homo Deus and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In the new book, Yuval explores 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 are three things Yuval Noah Harari made me question: 1) 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 changed to wheat-based instead of plants, vegetables, etc. People started to get more back, knee and neck problems. And our brains might have shrunk. Because humans were no longer as alert. The list goes on. And Yuval has other examples. So it made me wonder, how many “revolutions” are actually net-negatives? And are we really better off? And the answer doesn’t really matter. All that matters is that Yuval made me think. 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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 everything you 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 essence of growth. Learning comes from wondering. Yuval will make you young again. He’ll make you curious again. 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