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HUMILITY by Yuval Noah Harari

  Humility Yuval Noah Harari Humility: a lack of false pride You are not the Centre of the World It’s natural for people to think they’re at the center of everything, believing their culture holds the key to humanity’s story. For example, many Greeks claim that history began with Homer , Sophocles , and Plato , and that the most important ideas came from Athens , Sparta , Alexandria , or Constantinople . But then, Chinese nationalists counter with their own narrative, saying history truly started with the Yellow Emperor and the Xia and Shang dynasties. They argue that any achievements by Westerners, Muslims, or Indians are just imitations of Chinese originals. Meanwhile, Hindu nativists (philosophers) argue that even ancient Chinese contributions are latecomers. They claim sages from the Indian subcontinent invented airplanes and nuclear bombs long before Confucius, Plato, or even the Wright brothers. According to them, Maharishi Bhardwaj created rockets and aeroplanes, Vis...

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