Sapiens takes readers on a sweeping journey through the entire history of the human species, from the emergence of Homo sapiens in East Africa roughly 300,000 years ago to the biotechnological and artificial-intelligence revolutions unfolding today. Unfortunately, not everyone’s a historian buff, and may not pick up books specifically about History to read. But it doesn’t mean there isn’t anything useful or applicable that we can’t learn and use in our daily lives. Here’s are some insights from Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari:
Insight 1
Shared Fictions Enable Mass Cooperation The defining feature of Homo sapiens is not our tools or our intelligence per se, but our ability to create and believe in intersubjective realities—things that exist only because large numbers of people collectively agree they do. Money has no inherent value; a corporation has no physical body; a nation is a line on a map backed by shared…
