Hans Rosling<\/b>\u00a0was a medical doctor, professor of international health and renowned public educator. He was an adviser to the World Health Organization and UNICEF, and co-founded M\u00e9decins sans Fronti\u00e8res in Sweden and the Gapminder Foundation. His TED talks have been viewed more than 35 million times, and he was listed as one of\u00a0Time<\/i>\u00a0Magazine\u2019s 100 most influential people in the world. Hans died in 2017, having devoted the last years of his life to writing\u00a0Factfulness<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Ola Rosling\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0Anna Rosling R<\/b>\u00f6<\/b>nnlund,\u00a0<\/b>Hans’s son and daughter-in-law, were co-founders of the Gapminder Foundation, and Ola its director from 2005 to 2007 and from 2010 to the present day. After Google acquired the bubble-chart tool called Trendalyzer, invented and designed by Anna and Ola, Ola became head of Google’s Public Data Team and Anna the team\u2019s senior user experience (UX) designer. They have both received international awards for their work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Factfulnes<\/i>s: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.<\/b><\/p>\n
When asked simple questions about global trends\u2015what percentage of the world\u2019s population live in poverty; why the world\u2019s population is increasing; how many girls finish school<\/i>\u2015we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.<\/p>\n
In\u00a0Factfulness<\/i>, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers\u00a0a radical new explanation of why this happens<\/b>. They reveal\u00a0the ten instincts that distort our perspective<\/b>\u2015from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of\u00a0us<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0them<\/i>) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse).<\/p>\n
Our problem is that we don\u2019t know what we don\u2019t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases.<\/p>\n
It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think.<\/b>\u00a0That doesn\u2019t mean there aren\u2019t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most.<\/p>\n
Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories,\u00a0Factfulness\u00a0<\/i>is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future.<\/b><\/p>\n
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\u201cThis book is my last battle in my life-long mission to fight devastating ignorance\u2026Previously I armed myself with huge data sets, eye-opening software, an energetic learning style and a Swedish bayonet for sword-swallowing. It wasn\u2019t enough. But I hope this book will be.\u201d Hans Rosling, February 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"product_cat":[44],"product_tag":[],"yoast_head":"\n