Factfulness

Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

By: Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund

Narrated by: Simon Slater

Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of carrying only opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.

When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world's population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of us live in poverty - we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.

In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and a man who can make data sing, Hans Rosling, together with his two longtime collaborators Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens and reveals the 10 instincts that distort our perspective.

It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. 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.

Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world.

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©2018 Hans Rosling (P)2018 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

inspiring thought leadership

Loved this book. The Humility, Honesty and humour really brings Hans' thought process to life

Brilliant

If are to read one book this year, let it be this. Brilliant, insightful and forward looking.

Great book but audio quality is sub-par

Entertaining and informative, very good narrator. Audio quality is weirdly lower than average, but still ok

Obligatory book for Social Science Students

I finished in about one week. Simply amazing, one of the bests books I've seen.

Statists can be so enlightening

Amazing statistical information provided to ordinary (and so called highly educated) people on issues so important to all if us (especially us living in level 3 and 4) to help change the growing new-world problems. Why do so many people in more wealthy homes and countries have ever increasing psychological problems when in general the world is actually getting better not worse. correctly collecting data and interpriting it is true knowledge and power. Thank you Hans and RIP.