Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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Author: Hans Rosling
Genres: Nonfiction Science Self-Help History and Politics
In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why we systematically get the answers wrong. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective—from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse).