We are experiencing a rapid change in our thinking and living habits and feel powerless in the face of it. Thinking itself is caught in a globalization trap. Monotonously, it revolves around two fundamental questions: How does one master the global, ask some, and how does one save it, ask others. The philosopher Rüdiger Safranski helps to navigate through a flood of impressions and threats with this book. He encourages the creation of spaces for balance and agency, as globalization can only be shaped if the other great task is not neglected: the individual shaping oneself.