In 1998, the year he received the Nobel Prize, Amartya Sen gave an outstanding assessment of the last millennium. The words spoken in this writing are among his main teachings. In the same year he had to write an essay about himself on the occasion of receiving the Nobel Prize. His own position in that work is also heavily influenced by global connections. Coincidentally, there is a surprising juxtaposition of Amartya's autobiographical teaching with the teaching of what has happened in the world over the past millennium?both celebrate the practice of human becoming.