One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations - Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari
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To future-proof our careers and our education, we should focus beyond cognitive skills; social, emotional, physical and bodily skills – something that martial arts excel at, for example.

Sapiens can cooperate in extremely flexible ways with countless numbers of strangers. That’s why Sapiens rule the world, whereas ants eat our leftovers and chimps are locked up in zoos and research laboratories.

We like to see underdogs win. But there is no justice in history. Most past cultures have sooner or later fallen prey to the armies of some ruthless empire, which have consigned them to oblivion. Empires, too, ultimately fall, but they tend to leave behind rich and enduring legacies. Almost all people in the twenty-first century are the offspring of one empire or another.