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So very worthwhile.

Very eye opening for me, helps you realise the way you see things and the unconscious assumptions your brain makes, I will definitely keep to remind myself on how I should process information.
hopeful informative medium-paced

Interesting, but sometimes a bit too long. Feels like reading 11 different tedtalks at once.

Um daqueles livros que verdadeiramente influenciam e mudam a maneira de pensar e ver o mundo.
Em um texto leve, didático e altamente informativo e provocador, Hans Rosling apresenta dez instintos que nos levam a fechar os olhos e a mente para aspectos cruciais que mostram como o mundo está melhorando e como nos condicionamos a visões restritas sobre como as coisas realmente funcionam.
Falando desde a nossa tendência a generalizar e a categorizar fatos e pessoas até nossa mania de sempre tentar personificar a culpa por qualquer coisa errada que aconteça ao invés de tentar resolver os problemas e prevenir que eles ocorram no futuro, o livro mostra como podemos ver o mundo de uma forma diferente. Através de um aparato de dados e análises extremamente bem fundamentadas, o livro nos mostra como podemos abrir a mente para entender que a maioria dos problemas que de fato existem hoje não possuem soluções simplistas e milagrosas e que é possível que as coisas, apesar de não serem boas, estarem melhores do que já foram.
Como o apego cego a ideologias por mais bem intencionadas e altruístas que elas possam ser nos priva de entender o ponto de vista do outro e crescer como seres humanos e sociedades, e como isso acaba por ser combustível da onda de divisão e de ódio que a sociedade vive.
Um livro que desperta muita auto-crítica e muitos questionamentos e que prova mais uma vez como a busca de conhecimento é um caminho fundamental para melhorar as pessoas e, consequentemente, o mundo em que vivemos. Fantástico! Recomendadíssimo!

I had been following gates books recommendation for a while now and I had seen his recommendation for this book in his website gatesnotes.com and since then I always wanted to read this book.
This is an inspiring books which help us to understand the world we live in. You can see all the statistics and you can know in which direction world is leading. You can access the facts out there and avoid the misconception about the world.
It is really good book to have a try.
I recommend this book to those who are worry about the world.To those people who think things are not going to chance. This book can change the perception of people towards the world and help them to think in a way they haven`t thought before.
I suspect this book will be good for the pessimistic people rather than optimistic people.
hopeful informative medium-paced
informative medium-paced

Rosling giver et enormt spændende værktøj til at forstå verden og blive bevidst om sine egne fordomme og fejlslutninger. Den ender med at lidt lang og det kan være svært at se den store forskel mellem de forskellige instinkter han tegner op.

I was planning on writing in this review that I would love to know Rosling's impressions of how the world has responded to Covid, Trump, etc. I thought that this book was limited by when it was written. I had not known before the coda at the end of the book, of Rosling's passing away before the book was even published. I was surprised that this brought tears to my eyes. Although at times his Pollyanna-ish perspective annoyed me- I found I had grown fond of him by the end of the book and I'm sad that he is no longer here to share his perspective.

I am a big fan of Pinker's Better Angels of Our Nature, which covers similar gound both more broadly and more minutely. But this book's aim, I think, was to be more of an instructional guide for how to think differently. I agree with so much here, and there was a lot I found interesting and useful, but overall I was just kind of left feeling a little empty, like the book is missing something but I can't put my finger on it. Agreeing with Rosling in theory but feeling a little annoyed by his tone (see above Pollyanna reference) even as he assures us that being more "factful" does not mean blinding ourselves to true threats, which he names- I'm not sure what bothers me.

While I consider myself to be somewhat of a worldly travel and know a fair amount about the world, this book definitely proved me wrong! An insightful read that changed the way I think about the world.