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A straightforward book which will help you understand our world from a sense of patterns and trends. There is validity in understanding our perceptions, and where those come from. I think this book should become part of all high school curriculums.
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Amazing book, read during a time when things feel bleak. Highly recommend if you are interested in the state of the world and your role within it.
Read this.
Educate yourself. Educate the world around you. With facts about what the world actually looks like - that it’s not as bad as we think it is. That it can be bad and get better at the same time. That it can get better and still be bad. But that it’s not getting worse.
And we can only keep making the world a better place if we update our knowledge of it. This book is a great start.
Educate yourself. Educate the world around you. With facts about what the world actually looks like - that it’s not as bad as we think it is. That it can be bad and get better at the same time. That it can get better and still be bad. But that it’s not getting worse.
And we can only keep making the world a better place if we update our knowledge of it. This book is a great start.
I initially found some of Rosling's tone to be excessively pleased with its own cleverness and bordering on insufferable, but as I continued the book I instead found his joy and excitement to be endearing. Furthermore, as the book was finished after his death, the book was finished by his family who loved him dearly and it would not surprise me if they were responsible for some of this. As for the content, it's as excellent as you would expect from Dr. Rosling. While those who are relatively up-to-date with the trends in global health and development will be less surprised at the progress that has been made than will be many of the audiences referenced in his book, his "Rules of Thumb" for curating your perspective and the sources of information you consume are helpful to incorporate into your mindset.
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The world isn't all that bad of a place. Read this to better understand why we think the way that we do and see the invisible progress that makes a real difference being made.
hopeful
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I enjoyed Factfulness and the Roslings clearly enjoyed writing it. This is a serious but sweet reckoning with why we still think the world hasn't changed much in the past 50 (or 100, or 200) years and simple ways that we can all approach claims more factfully. This is less a, "Stop complaining, the world is better than ever!" book and much more of a, "Why do you still think X is that way?" approach to looking at the world. The Roslings promote a pragmatic, data-driven lens for how we, collectively, may wish to view the world today.
"It is quite relaxing being humble, because it means you can stop feeling pressured to have a view about everything, and stop feeling you must really defend your views all the time."
"It is quite relaxing being humble, because it means you can stop feeling pressured to have a view about everything, and stop feeling you must really defend your views all the time."