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21 LESSONS Mam Aeisha Altaf

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FOR THE 21ST Sara Saif (04)

CENTURY
Iman Asim (40)
Saliha Ali (153)
YUVAL NOAH HARARI Samia Ghafoor (161)
Rabbia Sohail (166)
Maira Shahid (167)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Yuval Noah Harari has a PhD in

History from the University of
Oxford.
Yuval Noah Harari is the author the
international best sellers Sapiens: A
Brief History of Humankind (2015)
and Homo Deus: A Brief History of
Tomorrow (2017).
SYNOPSIS:
Throughout the book, the author anchors his
considerations of the early 21st century and beyond
in the considerations of the decades, centuries, and
millennia that have gone before.
This essential perspective appears in every chapter
of the book, as he considers the experience of both
individuals and communities have gone through
similar experience in the past.
THESIS STATEMENT:

21 Lessons for the 21st century is a book that

looks to the future. The book’s central theme
is that the stories we have told to make sense
of the world (political stories, scientific
stories, religious stories, personal stories) are
failing to account for the massive change that
have occurred in the last few decades.
10.TERRORISM
•Government should focus on secret
actions against the terror network.
•The media should keep things in
perspective and avoid hysteria.
•It is the responsibility of every citizen
to liberate his imagination from the
terrorists, and to remind ourselves of
the true dimensions of this threat.
11.WAR
•Both on the personal and on the
collective level, humans are prone to
engage in self-destructive activities.
•Humans stupidity is one of the most
important forces in history, yet we
often discount it.
•One potential remedy for humans
stupidity is a dose of humility.
12.HUMILITY
• None of the religious or nations of
today existed when humans colonist
the world, domesticated plants and
animals, built the first cities, or
invented writing and money.
• Morality, art, spirituality and creativity
are universal human abilities implanted
in our DNA.
• All social animals have ethical codes.
 13.GOD
•We invoke this mysterious GOD to explain the
deepest riddles of the cosmos.
•On other occasions people sea GOD as a stern
and worldly law giver, about whom know only
too much.
•We must believe in GOD that gave some
concrete laws to humans, or else morality will
disappear and society will collapse in to
primeval chaos.
 14.SECULARISM

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•Secularism is defined as the •Questions you cannot •Humans should always

negation of the religion.it is answer are usually far retain the freedom to
like a hollow way of life better than answers you doubt ,to check again, to try a
without a direction. cannot questions. different path.
15.IGNORANCE
• Most people don’t like too many
facts, and they certainly don’t like
to feel stupid.
• The knowledge illusion.
• You know less than you think.
16.JUSTICE
•The bitter truth is that the world has simply
become too complicated for our hunter-
gatherer brains.
•Most of the injustices in the contemporary
world result from large-scale structural biases
rather than from individual prejudices.
•There is something amiss with the intensions
of those who do not make a sincere effort to
know.
17.POST TRUTH

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When a thousand
people believe some
In fact, false stories
made-up story for a The truth is that truth
have an intrinsic
month-that’s fake was never high on the
advantage over the
news. When a billion agenda of Homo
truth when it comes to
people believe it for a Sapiens.
uniting people
thousand years-that’s a
religion
18.Science fiction
•The future is not what you see in
movies.
•Pain is pain, fear is fear and love is
love – even in a matrix.
•Escaping the narrow definition of self
might well become a necessary
survival skill in the 21st Century.
Yuval Noah Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21 st Century is a probing
and visionary investigation into today’s most urgent issues as we
move into the uncharted territory of the future.