Ekta | wisdomekta

So, I read this one along with "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" (reviewed last week) and found an exciting connection. Both books are optimistic about the future. Both books advocate the urgency of the “new-ness” required in the world and pave a new path for the existing world. "A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions", a book by the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Muhammad Yunus, presents the case for social business with lots of examples and proposals for economic reform, far from impractical and a thought-cum-action provoking book. The book widely dictates the successful economic experiments done by the writer and others, especially in Bangladesh's Grameen Bank, to offer a framework for using human capital to solve problems such as poverty, environmental degradation and unemployment. The exciting part is when he questions Adam Smith’s assumption that a “human being is basically...

'A wise old man was asked what he learned about the meaning of life. ‘Well,’ he answered, ‘I have learned that I am here on earth in order to help other people. I still haven’t figured out why the other people are here.’ Liberty, equality, community, civilisation- what does this all mean?  Are we ever free or just merely posing for the same?  Are we reliving the matrix world (the movie)… what about our thinking system…are we independent there? This is an utterly fantastic book, the second book I have read by Yuval Harari. It is a perfect book to challenge everything around us…be it the information read, seen or heard, or individual core beliefs.. it opens our minds and broadens our horizons. The book validates one perspective of mine, i.e., the information is slowly converting into a humongous amount of data, making it impossible to focus on anything in particular, leading our mind into a 'paralytic zone'. The book indicates that, as humans, we have to give up ...