Harari: An Unspoken Hero
I'm quite an avid fan of motivational speakers, but I recently have begun to explore motivational thinkers . These are people who don't just tell you things that make you feel "less likely" to procrastinate and be lazy, but people who really want you to reach your potential and expand your horizons. I recently learned about an author, a global figure that is seemingly a hero among some of the world's brightest. Yuval Noah Harari, a professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is a historian, philosopher, and internationally-renown writer who wrote Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind , a widely-acclaimed novel at the top of several reading lists. While motivational speakers come and go, Harari can teach or remind us what we’re all capable of – critical thinking. Harari paints a macro view of mankind through the evolution of historical events, common practices, and human experience. Using philosophy and economics, for example, Harari has analyzed how the strength ...