Yuval Noah Harari on The Story of Sapiens, The Power of Awareness, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show
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Prof. Yuval Noah Harari (@harari_yuval) is a historian and bestselling author who is considered one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals today. His popular books-Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century- have sold 27.5 million copies in 60 languages. They have been recommended by Barack Obama, Chris Evans, Janelle Monáe, Bill Gates, and many others. The Guardian has credited Sapiens with revolutionizing the nonfiction market and popularizing “brainy books.”
He is also behind Sapiens: A Graphic History, a new graphic novel series in collaboration with comics artists David Vandermeulen (co-writer) and Daniel Casanave (illustrator). This beautifully illustrated series is a radical reworking of his book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. The series will be published in four volumes starting in fall 2020 with Volume 1, The Birth of Humankind, which is out now.
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6:39 interview actually starts
Goat!!
Tim, I don’t understand why you don’t video tape these incredible conversations. The audio is great, but actually seeing your guests would make all the difference in the world. In fact I think video taping is one of the reasons Joe Rogan is so popular, without which I don’t think his podcast would be what it is.
Totally agree 👏🏼
I agree ...
6:11 this is 2nd skip button for ads
the real hero is always in the comments
1:11:33 talk about Sapiens
thanks buddy
Thanks
@@mestredonotion pkbl
One sad part is that we can't see the interviewee. Like expression and emotions of both the participants. Hope to see more live interviews
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Oh my god dude, this is what i have been wanting! Thank you Tim Ferris and thank you Yuval Harari.
Thank you Tim for bringing him here, i was just reading 'Sapians'.
Thank you sm for such an interesting conversation!
Great interview. Nice balance of relaxed conversation and deep analysis.
The best history lesson and perfect for the modern schools..all of the Harari`s writings .
One of my favorite interview ever
We enjoyed the Seth Godin podcast and are looking forward to this!
Listened to the podcast. Now I’m here for the shownotes. Listening again. Lol so good!
Cerebral volleyball between these two. Yuval has such a sharp mind. Easily one of the best conversations on a digital platform this year....amzing it only has 36k views....shows you the YT algorithm leave a lot to be desired! As always thanks for the stellar content tim
Harari doesn’t take himself too seriously - if only more were like that!
@donald johnson i don't see the value in that if it's simply a general stance you hold
And that’s extremely rare for someone who’s that smart compare to regular people who think so superior 🤣
Loved the subtle tell of Yuval's husband. Well done.
A genuine genius of our time
Thank you!!
He is
Genuine demon*
He is supported by Bill Gates and Obama? That's all we need to know. Thanks.
I read his book "Sapiens". In that book he panders to wealth and empire without balancing the alleged "gains" created by civilization with climate change. This is what I mean by pandering. He knew about climate change and it's perpetrators when he wrote the book, but he never draws the connection between the greed of our "leaders" and the climate destruction they've wrought. Poor people don't set policy so the entire weight of the blame for climate destruction falls on those who've taken it upon themselves to lead us to destruction. THAT is a message that doesn't pander to rich people as Yuval does. But of course if he'd said that truth... his book would never have found a publisher.
He argues that empire and the abuses it creates is worthwhile because it "unifies" humanity. But he simply assumes that this unity is a objective good. We can easily see that it is not simply from all the ills that beset us because we've filtered the wills of billions of people into the hands of a very few.
Yes
Was listening to the podcast yesterday 👐👌
I loved this!
נהנתי מאוד יובל. בהצלחה בהמשך
I have been waiting for this! Yuval and Rogan next please!
Brilliant as usual
Yuval was the one person that convinced me to meditate after finishing reading his 3 books 😂
Really? That's been on my mind in recent times... I don't know why I shy away from meditating but I do.
Your mind is talking you out of doing it. Don't listen to it and sit down for a few minutes.
My favourite person in the world. Thank you for your dedication for enlightenment trying to save the world.🌍🙏
Save the world? Hmm, you are insanely brainwashed.
anything Yuval i like.
profound and bizarrely comforting! Thank you for this!
I waited so long for Tim doing this with yuval Noah. Great interview. Fun and very interesting. Good job tim.👍👍👍
What a great infomercial
Tim, why is there not video on UA-cam for these interviews? You reference "For people not watching the video" so often, yet there is no video for us to watch.
I'm not feeling well that will be back later to listen.
OMG can I help you pronounce Pu'er tea in the right way? I almost fell off my chair laughing.
Hopefully 🙏 this guy becomes a household name before it’s too late.🙏
Tim, why haven't you interviewed Arthur Joseph yet? He's one of my models, and I think unique in what he does, which is to teach people how to be themselves by instructing them on how to tap into the power of their own voice, their true voice. Surely you've heard of him - he trained famous people such as Tony Robbins and Angelina Jolie, besides senators, top athletes, etc. I think you should absolutely reach out to him, and you'll see how significant his message is and how well he is able to convey it.
Thanks for your comment, man! I'd never heard of Arthur Joseph and I'm checking him out now. Looks massively helpful.
begins at 6:34 . You're welcome.
37:28 new bike for 21st century 😂😂😂
Harari has been a 'gateway drug' to new voices, thanks for this wonderful prescription to Tim Ferris....
1:11:33 Talk about Sapiens
Revelation 13:16-18: "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six."
Larissa Lai’s book ‘Salt Fish Girl’ may be of interest...
We want video 😭
What were the 2 episodes from black mirror that they suggested to watch? Thanks! If anyone could advise.... :)))
If you have time watch it all they are mind blowing but some of them boring too but that doesn't matter i think😅
Tim, Please interview Eben Pagan.
When the fridge understands you better than your husband the wife can ask the fridge what would he like for dinner :-)
Start : 6.34
Video starts after 43 ads @ 2 hours into
Does Yuval live on a moshav, or is this just another example of the Wikipedia echo effect? [06:34]
Yuval practices vipassana meditation for two hours every day and takes an annual meditation retreat for a month or two. But how did this dedication to the practice begin? [07:39]
Six months after this first experience with vipassana meditation, what changed for Yuval? [12:21]
How did Sapiens evolve from Yuval’s history lectures at Hebrew University to a sleepy Amazon self-publication of 2,000 to a worldwide sensation published in 60 languages to an audience of over 20 million (and counting)? [14:45]
What are the advantages to developing a book from lecture notes (as Peter Thiel and Blake Masters also did for Zero to One)? [18:53]
How did Yuval come to be so cognizant of suffering, and in what ways does he see it fitting into the larger picture of human history? [21:16]
On the test of suffering as a way to sort the real from the imaginary stories we collectively tell ourselves. [26:15]
Why money, from antiquity to the modern day, is really a story about trust. [31:20]
In what ways has life changed for Yuval since his unexpected elevation to fame as a bestselling author, and how does it compare to what it might have been like if he’d remained an obscure medieval history professor? [35:40]
If Yuval were superhuman, what would be his superpower - and why? [38:57]
What kind of advice can Yuval’s close friends rely on him to give? [41:23]
What would Yuval’s friends say is his superpower? [43:27]
How does Yuval relate to happiness and how it contrasts with suffering and misery? [44:46]
Has Yuval made any decisions or adopted any frameworks that have helped him preserve some modicum of personal space and privacy? [47:15]
Thinkers and writers from history who have influenced Yuval. [51:01]
Why art moves us most when it expresses externally the inner feelings and thoughts for which we have no vocabulary - and should serve as a reminder that it’s unfair to expect others to understand us fully when we don’t necessarily understand ourselves fully. [52:41]
On Brave New World, 1984, and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy as philosophy, and how Yuval listens to audiobooks while swimming. [55:42]
Is Black Mirror philosophy or prophecy? [1:02:23]
Why Yuval thinks the movie Her raises more interesting philosophical questions about the future of AI than, say, The Terminator. [1:04:05]
Does Yuval think we’re close to the point where AI will demonstrate the difficulties posed by the word “understand” and the concept of understanding? [1:08:06]
How and why did Yuval decide to take Sapiens into the realm of the graphic novel with Sapiens: A Graphic History, and how has it allowed him and his co-conspirators (David Vandermeulen, and Daniel Casanave) to rethink and teach history in an unconventional way? [1:10:40]
How did Yuval and his team balance scientific objectivity with political correctness when bringing Sapiens into a visual format? [1:16:03]
Sapiens: A Graphic History will eventually be a four-volume set. How soon can we expect to see the next three, what does the creation process look like, and what do Yuval, David, and Daniel hope the world will take away from the series? [1:22:50]
What is Yuval’s mission statement? [1:24:29]
What does Yuval see as the most important global problems facing humanity right now, and where does he see humanity going in the next two centuries? [1:26:40]
Of our possible fates, which worries Yuval the most? [1:34:12]
When reflecting on the darker aspects of past, present, and potential future, what keeps Yuval going? [1:35:56]
Parting thoughts. [1:38:01]
Please put subtitles, its hard to focus like this
Do close captions help?
I don't get how the use of currency requires trust ? Doesn't trust imply a choice ? When born into a culture that uses currency,aren't we compelled to use the currency or live as a pariah ?
as soon as you start looking deeply at things Buddhism in some form seems inescapable if you live long enough IMO. also I have never heard anyone talk publicly about charles taylor. i agree sources of the self is a brilliant book.
Have sent recommendation to Joe Rogan for inviting Yuval to his podcast but looks like Tim Ferris got ahead of Joe rogan
How do you send jre recommendations?
I have talked to Joe Rogan. He says he needs a skin repair now because of all the exposure to RED in his studio.
@Coding Only lol
@@21972012145525 ... look up his agency
@@cluckycluck3053 lol
What's the message, how does it enrich my life? Meditate remain detached?
Actually reading sapiens
Depressingly enlightening.
6:34 here you go
We need to grow myour tea because of microclimates of healthy ECOLOGY where there is no waste/manufacturing in dust tries. Do you get your part yet/now???
What the hell, ads ads ads. And you expect me to keep watching? No
Bro, there's an entire conversation within your ad video.. Something is wrong? 🤔
Why so much ads?
I really agree with Mr Yuval, it's the belief n perception of millions that his writings are convincingly so true... that actually make his books sell
Sooooo many ads at the start
The moment when your smart refrigerator knows you better than your husband...🙃
Finley
Excellent podcast; one comment about Yuval’s statement on ‘money’ is not well researched. Money is not trust; ‘money’ is fungible; divisible; and has intrinsic value ... there has only been two ‘monies’: Gold & Silver. All other FIAT ‘trust’ ‘currencies’ have resorted back to their intrinsic value of zero.
tell that to Venezuela and Iran...
I found his ‘trust’, explanation, interesting and plausible.
How does piece of paper have intrinsic value?
42:22
i bought the book and still have not read it
Read you will fall in love with book
I had read in 8 days
@@hitenjadeja01 My next read is the happiness hypothesis by Johnathon Haidt. I once got to page 70 in sapiens and put it down. I’ll pick it back up
@@kylemedeiros6907 there is some boring pages but read full book , i repeat full book
@@kylemedeiros6907 btw how been your reading journey , how many you have read
@@hitenjadeja01 on it
Harari. A monster for our time. This man is helping to assist in the attempt to foist "benevolent" genocide upon the world.
Ladies and germs?
Nuclear war, ecological collapse, and technological disruption. What about future pandemics? Or would that be part of ecological collapse? I would disagree regarding Nuclear threats- Harare states no one wants nuclear war, but that is not necessarily true. There are certain groups that are nihilistic enough to go there if they got hold of the technology. There are certain regimes-like North Korea that are not as restrained as other nuclear powers. There is still an arms race going on globally.
I've read both his books and if the first one was mildly entertaining the 2nd one is a drag. He seems so full of himself, his thought proces is all style and no substance. It's basically a science book where "he is right because he is right". He was so inconsistent in his 2nd book I felt like my eyes were bleeding while reading.
Tim “fermented poo air” Ferris
I keep hearing 'Puerh' tea as 'poo-air' :/
51:00 People he is influenced by
Welcome boys an......ladies and germs?
Why is he sketched like a Star Trek alien in the thumbnail
Record videos, Man !!!!!
Ladies and germs??
🚶
Having sat many Vipassana retreats and having my life changed deeply by them, having been involved in the management of one of the meditation centers, I have mostly very good things to say both about the meditation technique taught there, the structure of the organization, ethical conduct of people involved, healing and positive transformation brought by this practice.
However, as I was reading Harari's “Sapiens”, I couldn’t believe that this was writing of an assistant teacher in this very meditation tradition. Logical fallacies every 2-3 pages, refuted or controversial theories in anthropology and archaeology presented as “facts”, self-contradictory materialism, depiction of human life as a cruel struggle for racial dominance… The writing style is accessible and compelling though, and young people untrained in logic/critical thinking seem to be gulping up these ideas, endorsed by the oligarchs of today. Calling subatomic particles “real” and justice or love - “fiction” means that the author is either guilty of deliberate ideological subversion or simply be better off enrolling in Philosophy 101 before publishing his works. Apparently meditation without reason is a blind and dangerous alley, after all.
upload video on youtube please
I read and you would love Israeli author : YUVAL HARARI or others like SABINE, SAM HARRIS, HITCHENS, DAWKINS, DENNETT , SHERMER AND OTHER SCIENTISTS!
YUVAL'S book on his brief history of everything. He has many talks online.
BUT BUT BUT NOTE: like most academics he is a materialist - meaning 'everything is matter; human beings are zombies of sorts; and the political
system should be socialism'. So his interpretation of many facts are WRONG but the overall writing, talks and theme is "very very interesting"
Be aware of not being hypnotized by him.
In contrast THE CORRECT COMPLETE CONCISE COMPREHENSIVE COHERENT philosophy :
man does have a mind.
But one can only induct that as an axiom. There is no "proof" for proof requires antecedent evidence.
->> Consciousness is the identification of existence. So existence first, mind second Aristotle's law of identity third.
Consciousness (an identity) identifies existence (another identity). That means the mind is real, separate to the brain, efficacious (free will), finite and delimited to your life.
Finite? Whereas existence is infinite: existed, exists and will forever exists.
You can NOT ask "how did existence come to be" for that is to presuppose "existence BEFORE existence" a logical contradiction!
You can only induct "it is, it was, it will always be". The verb: to be (but NOT the Shakespeare phrase "to be or not to be ") !
Delimited: Deepak Chopra says consciousness is infinite and it is the universe peeking back on itself through you!
Deepak is the primacy of consciousness: everything is consciousness or "God's mind or his fart".
In contrast above is the primacy of existence : existence first.
How does the mind come to be? One can not know as it is an "Axiom". In math axioms are every where. But this is not math.
Axiom is something one assumes. But it is not an arbitrary assumption . To state "there is no mind" is to beg the question:
"how do you know, as in what faculty are you using to reach this conclusion?" We come back to "the mind" !
So one has existence, mind and identity - this is the entirety of metaphysics [reality as it "is" - the word "is" or verb "to be"]
A cat is not a dog. A Whale is not a fish. You are NOT mere matter even though you're made of matter. Everything
has an identity. Truth. But how to know it? See below.
But how do you know the above OR come to know ANY truth? The methods of reason and logic [this is called epistemology in philosophy.
The only correct philosophy what I have said because you can use a universal method to verify and validate it - logic.
All others are sometimes interesting BUT WRONG]
So what is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth on the whole reality as it "is" [to be] ?
Metaphysics: existence (see above)
Epistemology [how do you know truth]? Reason.
The above leads to ethics. An individual of a species that can think and MUST think to sustain your life must by nature
have the inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. So evil is the use of force or fraud against
another as they are also equal and Sovereign citizen under the law.
Liberty to indeed think and act on the conclusions of your thinking! For what? To sustain your life! Life and Liberty.
But humans also live to thrive, not just to sustain a (mundane) life [else one gets depressed!]
IN CONTRAST, ALL OTHER SPECIES come pre-adapted to sustain their life : plants and animals (e.g. blubber of a polar bear, their claws, camo and teeth!)
What is the correct form of government and economics?
Based upon the above: it must be democracy - a government to protect your ethical rights identified above using it's arms like civil courts, military, and the police.
But what is the correct economic system and why? Capitalism [identified by BRITON - ADAM SMITH - that ended up as the backbone of the formation of a new nation in 1776- U.S.A !!!]
Above you see every species comes pre-adapted to a niche environment. BUT MAN must use his mind to think properly (reason and logic)
And act in order to sustain his life. Man must by your design of nature - READAPT THE BLOODY ENVIRONMENT TO YOURSELF ! INVADE THE ENVIRONMENT WITH REASON!
From first creative man that put on clothes ; discovered and created fire; created tools [remember those caveman picture books at junior school ? ]
From the cave to YOUR LIFE TODAY - every tiny and bigger "thing' was and is of the environment that's been
"readapted" for your use that you pay for directly or indirect - from behind the walls, under the floors, under the hood of your smartphone
or bathroom to all the things in a house or on the streets. Entire cities or villages are man that has readapted nature to YOUR value!
Man's property rights are a self evident truth that stems from ethics: your right to life. Man needs to acquire, maintain, dispose OR TRADE
your property or services (e.g. hat, cat, mat, iphone or money). A trade is a meeting of minds between two people without force or fraud:
such as prospective employer-employee or seller-buyer.
THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE IN MAN'S BELIEF LIKE TRADE!
ALAS IN MOST DEMOCRATIC (AND OTHER ) NATION PEOPLE UNAWARE clamor for socialism - as if big brother government "magically"
knows what is BEST FOR YOUR LIFE. How can any "one" know what is best for you - it's hard enough to know what is best for "oneself" for Christ's sakes!!!
The above principles led to the richest self made men in history by 1900s in the U.S.A. ! More than entire Monarchs throughout history
THAT you STUDIED in history class - pillaging and wars !
Finally man needs aesthetics: good art.
The WHOLE OF CORRECT PHILOSOPHY:
So metaphysics: existence
epistemology: reason
ethics: inalienable rights
politics: democracy - and economics: capitalism.
aesthetics: good art
As soon as Tim gave names like Obama etc as being fans of Harari I changed the channel.
Harari is a genius. Obama can like him everyone is right every now and then.
Obama likes pizza and watching TV. I guess you can't enjoy those things anymore 😉
@@logicNreason2008 The thing that's great about pizza and TV is you can enjoy both in a way Obama doesn't. I don't have ham hocks on my pizza and I don't watch CNN.
@@nategalvan3907 Harari has a very good knowledge of history and is a reasonably logical thinker, that doesn't put him in a genius stratosphere. He is not saying/doing anything new. He is regurgitating known ideas. Him talking about meditation would be one example.
@@nategalvan3907 Often true, but if Obama likes him, that is the exception to the rule.
Why must we look at flat photos of you??
Enlightening and destressing. The gay profit.
Tim, I support your decision not to include video, which is a distraction in most cases and frankly an overrated medium anyway.
I pay for youtube so I don't have to listen to the sort of crap that went on and on and on before we got to hear the guest.
I wonder if the one thumbs down is a member of isis?
ya allah plz forgive me stop watching this.
Sick of your advertising all now! Sorry don’t care what the best of the best, still selling ENOUGH ug
Ffs. Why dont you recommend your gym and bank while you're at it