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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World Summary
About Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World Book
New York Times Bestseller
COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come?
Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic consequences that may take years to unfold. Written in the form of ten "lessons," covering topics from natural and biological risks to the rise of "digital life" to an emerging bipolar world order, Zakaria helps readers to begin thinking beyond the immediate effects of COVID-19. Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World speaks to past, present, and future, and, while urgent and timely, is sure to become an enduring reflection on life in the early twenty-first century.
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This book foresees the nature of a post-pandemic world. It considers the upcoming political, social, technological, and economic consequences
“Everyone is connected, but no one is in control. In other words, the world we live in is open, fast — and thus, almost by definition, unstable.”
FAREED ZAKARIA
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Lesson 1 - Buckle Up
Technology has advanced considerably over the last few decades, but instead of stopping and thinking about how to keep ourselves safe, we have continued to expand. Zakaria describes this as humans having built the fastest sports car ever imaginable. However, we are driving it into the unknown with no seatbelts on. We haven’t equipped any airbags, and we haven’t purchased any insurance. Driving this sports car makes us feel innovative, modern, and powerful, but we experience crashes along the way. These crashes are getting worse with time.
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Despite these crashes, we still haven’t stopped to consider the safety precautions we need. Instead, we pull the vehicle over, tune up the suspension, and fix the engine. We continue to make our cars faster and faster, and yet we put ourselves in more profound danger. Zakaria believes the pandemic is an example of a massive crash. He quotes Larry Brilliant’s idea that “Outbreaks are inevitable but pandemics are optional.” We can’t stop the crashes, but we can control their impact. We should not continue our unsustainable expansion after the pandemic.
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Lesson learnt from COVID-19
1. Safety for Humanities future
Zakaria describes human progress as having built a fancy sports car without any safety precautions in case we "crash" ( pandemics, economic downturn, etc.)
We can't control the world's circumstances but we can control their impact. Resetting the world should be done sustainably so that we ensure we can live to see the future we are trying to create
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2. Improve the quality of government
The wellbeing of a country is determined by the quality of the decisions made by those entrusted to make those crucial decisions these are our supposed "leaders" who set policies on how to deal with a situation such as an opportunity. Depending on the mindset of your leaders, situations of crisis can present an opportunity for growth or a decline into misery.
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3. Markets don't dictate happiness
Whether the market is performing well doesn't mean that social ratings will be on the up. The markets merely represent the state of BUSINESS affairs rather than people's actual WELLBEING. Although the country must perform well economically it's also highly important that the social well-being of people is maintained to ensure long-term economic growth.
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