Yuval Noah Harari On Why Clarity is Power

AI is not even near its full potential; it's just in its infancy. We haven't seen anything yet. So, every 10 years, you are likely to lose your job or your job is going to be completely transformed by the new wave of the latest machine learning wizardry. And if you want to stay in the game, you will have to basically reinvent yourself—and not just once, but repeatedly.

Well, climate change, the two most important things to realize about it is that it's happening. It's not some future scenario ... Climate change is happening right now, so we need to do something. And the second thing we need to realize is that the only effective way to counter climate change is through global cooperation. It should be absolutely obvious that you cannot stop climate change on the national level.

In this age, clarity is more important than ever before because we need to know what to focus on. Attention becomes maybe the most scarce resource of all. And where to direct your attention and how to keep your attention on the important things—this is extremely important.

I think the maybe the most important thing for people to realize about living in the 21st century, as against the Middle Ages or the Stone Age, is that we are now hackable animals.

The most important contribution of meditation is to really be able to see reality as it is and to tell the difference between what is really happening and what is just stories generated by the mind.