Good news. You are a superhero. We all are. But instead of being able to fly or become invisible, the superpower that sets us above the rest of life on earth is the ability to tell stories.
This is the central argument of historian Yuval Noah Harari’s latest book, Unstoppable Us: How Humans Took Over the World. The bestselling author of the hugely influential Sapiens is one of the world’s great thinkers – Barack Obama is one of his biggest fans. Unstoppable Us is aimed at younger readers, though the ideas remain profound. Here he tells us how we can realise our power and use it to do good in the world.
THE BIG ISSUE: I’d prefer to be able to fly, but why is being able to tell stories a superpower we all share?
If you look at humans individually, we aren’t the most impressive animal. I’m far weaker than
