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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
INSTANT\u00a0NEW YORK TIMES<\/i>\u00a0BESTSELLER<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the most important books I\u2019ve ever read\u2015an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.\u201d \u2013 Bill Gates<\/b>
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\n\u201cHans Rosling tells the story of \u2018the secret silent miracle of human progress\u2019 as only he can. But\u00a0Factfulness<\/i>\u00a0does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.\u201d\u00a0\u2015<\/i>Melinda Gates<\/b>
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\n<\/b>“Factfulness<\/i>\u00a0by Hans Rosling, an outstanding international public health expert, is a hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases.” – Former U.S. President Barack Obama<\/b><\/i><\/b>
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\nFactfulnes<\/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":9030,"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":[25],"product_tag":[],"yoast_head":"\n