In Order To CHANGE YOUR LIFE In 2023, You Need To DO THESE 3 Things First! | Yuval Noah Harari
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🗓️ 3 January 2023
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On Today's Episode:
As someone on the path of major self-growth, these conversations are key in stretching your mind, changing your beliefs, and begging you to question how you want to live your life and exist in a rapidly changing world. Artificial intelligence has become more front and center in the past few weeks with A.I. art and AI generated images becoming virtually inescapable.
What can you do to thrive during these massive changes? Yuval Noah Harari is a historian and the bestselling author of the books that include Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. His book for kids, Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World is a NY Times Best Book of 2022. Yuval is also a professor of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the co-founder of the social impact company Sapienship.
In this episode the conversation gets deep between the need for your mental flexibility, how much narrative is influencing the world we experience, and the best way you can embrace change.
“It is much worse psychologically to feel worthless than to feel exploited” -Yuval Noah Harari
Check out his latest book, Unstoppable Us:How Humans Took Over the World: https://www.amazon.com/Unstoppable-Us-Humans-Took-World-ebook/dp/B09S8VC1JB
QUOTES:
“We have to keep learning and keep changing throughout our lives otherwise we will be left behind.”
“Old jobs disappear, but new jobs emerge. The real difficult thing will be the transition.” “Almost all people are liberal. Even the conservatives…”
“The ideological differences are small on the ground, but they are very big in people’s imagination. People have fantasies about what the other side is planning to do which are completely divorced from reality.”
“Fantasies often shape history and cause people to do terrible things.” “Instead of leaders who are trying to heal the national community you see leaders that try to destroy it and get power by kind of leading just one tribe.”
“I think the big narrative is the biological narrative that we are all homo sapiens, that we all have the same basic experiences, [...] these are things that are common to all humans.”
“A sacred place is a place plus a story about the place, and this is at the bottom of most conflicts in the world.”
“On the level of the body, we can relate to every other human being in the world because biologically we are all the same. What creates this huge distance between us is the fantasies that the mind imagines and produces.”
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| 0:00.0 | What is up my friend Tom Billio here and I have a big question to ask you how would you rate your level of personal discipline on a scale of 1 to 10 if your answer is anything less than a 10 I've got something cool for you |
| 0:10.6 | and let me tell you right now discipline by its very nature means compelling yourself to do difficult things that are stressful |
| 0:17.2 | boring which is what kills most people are possibly scary or even painful now here is the thing achieving huge goals and stretching to reach your potential requires you to do those challenging stressful things |
| 0:29.2 | and to stick with them even when it gets boring and it will get boring building your levels of personal discipline is not easy but let me tell you it pays off |
| 0:37.0 | in fact I will tell you you're never going to achieve anything meaningful unless you develop discipline right I've just released a class from impact theory university called how to build ironclad discipline that teaches you the process of building yourself up in this area so that you can push yourself to do the hard things that greatness is going to require of you right click the link on the screen register for this class right now and let's get to |
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| 1:36.7 | you all know a harrari welcome back to the show thank you it's good to be here again |
| 1:43.7 | do I'm very excited this is a very strange time that we're living through I want to start with a quote of yours which I think really captures the spirit of the moment |
| 1:51.7 | it is much worse psychologically to feel worthless than to feel exploited so given what's happening in the world right now with things being automated going to AI what are |
| 2:04.7 | three things let's say that people can do to make sure that their poise to thrive in this time of massive change |
| 2:13.7 | first of all I mean that's what everybody saying what is through that you have to embrace change that the idea that you can learn something in your youth profession |
| 2:26.7 | a way of life and it will just be there for the rest of your life which was the situation for most of history this is this is no longer the case |
| 2:37.7 | we have to keep learning and keep changing throughout our lives otherwise we will be left behind |
| 2:45.7 | so that's one one key principle related to that is that maybe the most important quality to survive and flourish in the 21st century is to have mental flexibility |
| 2:59.7 | not just to keep learning and changing again and again also to keep letting go |
| 3:05.7 | part of what makes it difficult to learn new things that we hold on like you know I spent so many years learning something and now the world has changed |
| 3:17.7 | and I just don't want to let go and letting go maybe I'll give an example of how deep it goes |
| 3:25.7 | like it's not just what you learn in college or what you learned in kindergarten it's even what you learned as a baby as a toddler like learning how to see |
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