Factfulness
Hans Rosling was a physician, international health lecturer, and well-known public speaker. He served as a consultant to the World Health Organization and UNICEF, and he co-founded Médecins Sans Frontières in Sweden and the Gapminder Foundation.
Hans' son and daughter-in-law, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund, co-founded the Gapminder Foundation, with Ola serving as its director from 2005 to 2007 and again from 2010 to the present.
We consistently get the answers wrong when asked simple questions regarding global trends, such as what percentage of the world's population lives in poverty, why the world's population is expanding, and how many females finish school. So incorrect that a monkey answering questions at random will routinely outperform professors, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.
In Factfulness, Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon, and his two long-time partners, Anna and Ola, give a startling new explanation for why this occurs. They expose the ten inclinations that distort our perspective, ranging from our proclivity to divide the world into two camps (typically some form of us and them) to how we consume media (where fear reigns) to how we see progress (believing that most things are getting worse).
Our issue is that we don't know what we don't know, and our best predictions are influenced by unconscious and predictable biases.
It turns out that, despite its flaws, the planet is in far better shape than we may believe. That isn't to say there aren't legitimate worries. However, if we worry about everything all the time rather than accepting a worldview based on facts, we may lose our ability to focus on the things that endanger us the most.
Among the best books on cognitive biases, Factfulness is an urgent and necessary book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to future crises and opportunities. It is inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories.
Author: Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250107814?tag=uuid10-20
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