21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

Connect strongly with who we are at our best.Once we have built this foundation then if we truly want to succeed in the 21st century, we need to build all seven skills of Inner Leadership: Building emotional resilience and the ability to see ‘problems’ as opportunities is the most important attitude we can have for leading ourselves, and others, through a time of change.

He then describes three ways that we can build this more flexible mind: meditation, exercise, and connection with nature. No, the most important investment is really in building this more flexible mind or personality.” “The most important investment that people can make is not to learn a particular skill - ‘I’ll learn how to code computers’ or ‘I will learn Chinese’ or something like that. Even if there is a new job, and even if you get support from the government to kind of retrain yourself, you need a lot of mental flexibility to manage these transitions. “I think the most important thing is to invest in emotional intelligence and mental balance, because the hardest challenges will be psychological. (He did not, for example, predict the Covid pandemic.)Īs he explains, this unpredictability is the key driver for how best to prepare for the changes that are coming: He says that so much change is coming that almost the only thing we can be sure of is that we can’t know what is coming. In his book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, the historian Yuval Noah Harari talks about the coming disruptions in technology, politics, religion, immigration, terrorism, and war.

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari