21 Lessons for the 21st Century

by Yuval Noah Harari

Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers, or equations, and the simpler the story, the better.

Yet the real enigma of life is not what happens after you die but what happens before you die. If you want to understand death, you need to understand life.

For a few more years or decades, we still have a choice. If we make the effort, we can still investigate who we really are. But if we want to make use of this opportunity, we had better do it now.