Review: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Hooter: As the book blurb says - presenting our present through Yuval's perspective

He no doubt blew us all away with Homo Sapiens and Homo Deus, but maybe third time isn't always the charm. His writing style, his thought process is still wonderful backed with research but somehow it feels like he is crossing over to the self help genre with this.

The book is a great crash course on what defines our current world - why a handful of casualties in terrorism create more fear than thousands lost to military warfare or even road accidents, will Artificial Intelligence take our jobs and a lot more things we all are anxious about. He shares reasons to why we probably think in a certain way on these topics and suggests a few recommendations - the biggest one being aware of mindfulness.

Religion probably gets itself the most focus in this book and repeatedly makes appearances every few pages cutting across all the lessons we hear from Yuval.

The topic on immigration was new for me and he asks some great pointed questions there on is immigration countries should provide as a offering or should be demanded off and hence should there be a criteria. Obviously multiple schools of thought there that could make for a book in itself.

I think this book gets the conversation started and unfortunately for me, it stops there.

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