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On Purpose with Jay Shetty

Yuval Harari: ON Why Boredom is Good For You

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

iHeartPodcasts

Health & Fitness, Business, Mental Health

4.828.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In this weeks episode I sat down with international bestselling author of Sapiens, Homo Deus and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Harari.We covered so many interesting topics like how to manage expectations, the importance of boredom and what he believes the future of artificial intelligence is. He also shares with us his equation for happiness and he reveals why so many of us are addicted to being on our phones.We also dove into education and where he believes the job market will be 30 years from now. This episode is sure to challenge your perspective on certain topics!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Even if you believe that free will is possible theoretically in some situations

0:05.7

You should at least acknowledge that 99% of decisions don't reflect your free will

0:18.0

Thank you everyone for coming back to on purpose the number one health podcast in the whole world

0:23.6

Thank you for making us the number one podcast in the world

0:25.6

It means so much to me

0:26.9

I'm so grateful for all your love all your engagement and most importantly for choosing education for choosing enlightenment for choosing empowerment

0:36.4

Over everything else in the world. You're taking out your time right now whether you're walking your dog

0:41.3

You're at the gym you're commuting to and from work

0:44.1

Thank you for taking this time to invest in yourself now today's guest is someone that I've been looking forward to for such a long time

0:52.6

So I'm so happy. I'm so excited that he's finally here. His name is Yuvau Harari

0:59.2

You've probably seen it in every bookstore in the world if you travel at all or if you ever walk into shop

1:05.6

You will have seen it. He's amazing international best-selling books

1:10.4

Sapiens homodeous and 21 lessons for the 21st century

1:15.4

He's also a two-time winner of the Pellonski Prize which you won in 2009 and

1:20.2

2012 for his originality and creativity and today we get to dive into his incredible mind and

1:28.8

Find all of these insights that he shared. Yuvau. Thank you so much for being here today

1:33.5

It's great to be here. I'm grateful that you're allowing the opportunity. No, I'm so excited

1:38.8

I genuinely was so looking forward to this discussion

1:42.4

It's not only about the success of your books what you've been

1:45.8

Speaking about in your books have dipped into so many different parts of mainstream culture

1:50.9

And I love that how I think I like you has been able to do that in today's incredible world so congratulations

1:56.6

for everything that you've done and I'm hoping this is the start of a new relationship for us as well. Yeah

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