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4.33 AVERAGE
4.33 AVERAGE
informative
medium-paced
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
adventurous
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
informative
fast-paced
I almost put the book down after the first couple chapters: It reads like an extended TED talk in a way that makes me want to be contrary. It has an unintentionally condescending tone that tries too hard to tell me that every detail discussed will blow my mind. The questions in the quiz are leading people to answer a particular wrong way -- I wonder what answers would be in a blank response test rather than multiple choice. The language and concepts are at times overly simplistic. Poverty looks different at the wealthy "Level 4" than on the extreme poverty "Level 1", sure, but it is still a problem. And so on...
However, it *is* very readable, clearly explained, concise, and surprisingly comprehensive -- this is a huge feat in itself. Once I stopped indulging myself in being annoyed by it, the actual data presented was interesting and eye-opening. I was not always as surprised as he wants me to be about the state of the world today (although that could just be my contrariness kicking in), but the timeline charts of how much the world has changed over the last decades was quite dramatic and surprising. His little stories throughout, from talks with big investors to poverty-stricken clinics in Africa were excellent to read, although especially the one with women leaders in Africa -- it's not a big enough of a vision to end the most extreme forms of poverty, and we should be aiming to end the vast inequalities between countries/continents/etc on a broader scale. As important as the dramatic changes in daily material life and well-being are, I would be interested in more information about inequality worldwide -- the change in the amount of wealth the top 1% have vs the rest etc -- which I felt was lacking in this book.
I think his discussion of the "urgency instinct" was particularly relevant to today -- we hear so much about pressing issues and negativity, that we start to feel cynical and hopeless, when in fact hearing the facts about how efforts to address various problems worldwide *actually are working* (perhaps too little, too slowly in some cases, but still) is much more practical to encourage continued efforts.
I know I complained a lot in this review, but I definitely recommend this book to anyone feeling overwhelmed with despair about the world -- not that it will comfort you into complacency, but that it will show it is very much possible for us to change the world for the better. By various important indicators, it already has.
However, it *is* very readable, clearly explained, concise, and surprisingly comprehensive -- this is a huge feat in itself. Once I stopped indulging myself in being annoyed by it, the actual data presented was interesting and eye-opening. I was not always as surprised as he wants me to be about the state of the world today (although that could just be my contrariness kicking in), but the timeline charts of how much the world has changed over the last decades was quite dramatic and surprising. His little stories throughout, from talks with big investors to poverty-stricken clinics in Africa were excellent to read, although especially the one with women leaders in Africa -- it's not a big enough of a vision to end the most extreme forms of poverty, and we should be aiming to end the vast inequalities between countries/continents/etc on a broader scale. As important as the dramatic changes in daily material life and well-being are, I would be interested in more information about inequality worldwide -- the change in the amount of wealth the top 1% have vs the rest etc -- which I felt was lacking in this book.
I think his discussion of the "urgency instinct" was particularly relevant to today -- we hear so much about pressing issues and negativity, that we start to feel cynical and hopeless, when in fact hearing the facts about how efforts to address various problems worldwide *actually are working* (perhaps too little, too slowly in some cases, but still) is much more practical to encourage continued efforts.
I know I complained a lot in this review, but I definitely recommend this book to anyone feeling overwhelmed with despair about the world -- not that it will comfort you into complacency, but that it will show it is very much possible for us to change the world for the better. By various important indicators, it already has.
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
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Lieliska grāmata!
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(Mazliet piestrādāju, lai grāmata pienācīgā daudzumā būtu JR veikalos, tāpēc no amazones nav jāsūta ;) )
Lieliska grāmata!
Ja jūs šod izdomājat izlasīt tikai vienu zinātnisku grāmatu, lai tā ir šī.
Starptautiskās ziņas nekad vairs neskatīsieties kā agrāk. Varbūt par vēlēšanās nobalsosiet par kaut ko jēdzīgu (ja tas vispār ir iespējams), bet pat ja neizlemsiet pamainīt savu domāšanas taku, varēsiet daudzus faktus un autora atstāstītas situācijas izmantot kolēģu šarmēšanai formālās un mazāk formālās ballītēs.
Obligāti izlasiet!
(Mazliet piestrādāju, lai grāmata pienācīgā daudzumā būtu JR veikalos, tāpēc no amazones nav jāsūta ;) )