This means the perception of a massively divided world in which the majority remains relatively impoverished and deprived is a misconception. In addition to this, low-income countries are significantly more developed than most people think, with vastly fewer people still living in them. More than 85% of the modern world falls into what we would call in the past, the “developed” world, with most of the remaining 15% in between “developed” and “developing.” As few as 13 countries (6% of the world’s population) qualify as “developing” countries. Summary: The tendency to divide things into distinct and often opposing groups and imagine/project some sort of gap between them (e.g. (Scroll to the end for a link to the book) Factfulness Book Summaryġ0 Instincts That Distort Our Perspective 1. Here’s a summary of some key insights and lessons for building a more “factful” perspective: In his book, Rosling outlines ten of these fundamental instincts and how to combat them to cultivate shift towards a perception based in fact that will ultimately alter the way we think, feel, and behave as a result. But are things as bad as they seem? Swedish statistician Hans Rosling and his son Ola Rosling in their 2018 book, Factfulness, take a step back from the fray to analyze trends and data to see whether our lives are getting worse or better, and show that in the grand scheme perhaps things are better and more hopeful than mass-media-fueled majority majority of everyday people might realize.įactfulness is about understanding how our instincts program us to exaggerate situations and distort our perception of reality in ways that further exacerbate problems and how we react to them. In 2019, a step back to look at what’s happening is daunting - from dozens of mass shootings to economic uncertainty, volatile foreign powers, cyber-threats, questionable privacy, rapidly evolving technologies, cultural dissent, and more, a sense of being scared and overwhelmed seems reasonable. Many Americans share concerns about major current events and perhaps even a general concern that circumstances are growing worse in numerous ways, stability declining, and dangers rising everywhere. Factfulness: Gaining a Better (and More Hopeful) Perspective of Today's World
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