Podcast - Episode 0337 - The Shared Myths Of Sapiens

In this podcast you’ll find:

• We talk about this book: Sapiens – by Yuval Noah Harari
• The book talks about the 3 revolutions humans went through – the cognitive revolution, the agricultural revolution, and the scientific revolution
• The revolutions each altered humans and the planet as a whole
  • Do we know why this happened?
  • Human behavior and its effect on flora and fauna
• The agricultural revolution:
  • How did this impact our diet?
  • The anxiety caused by “having all of our eggs in one basket”
  • Harvest thinking
  • How this revolution shaped society over time
• Why the physicality and the myth need to match each other.
• How we use myths in general – and the roles they have today and through the ages.
  • How myths work e.g. money
  • How and when do myths change
  • Can the individual impact myths?
• Sapiens reminds us of humanity’s timeline.
• The hero versus the steward framework – how we view humanity through these lenses.
• What does it mean to be human? Some thoughts on “the human dance” and nodes in the system of humanity.