‼️ Factfulness by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Ola Rosling ‼️
44/∞
“Remember: things can be bad, and getting better.”
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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📚 Length: 342 pages
🔊Audiobook: 8 hours and 51 minutes
Why you should read this book?
💡Helps you to ignore the negative perspective given to you by media and teaches you how to look for the positive.
💡The author makes you aware of the types of information we humans tend to pay attention to and helps you to bring the information in the right perspective.
💡Because humans (educated/uneducated) are often not smarter than chimps. 🙊🐒
Hans Rosling is the author who sort of predicted the global pandemic of Covid 19. He does not says specifically in the book that the pandemic is coming, but he fears it.
Hans Rosling did not write this book alone. When he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he decided to pass on his knowledge in the form of book. He had two females to help him to finish the entire project. His life was interesting and full of interesting facts. Hans is even funny, as you can expect from rich Scandinavians as they can afford to be funny. 😀
But as he speaks about human development he reminds us that Sweden 🇸🇪 was not always a rich country. As the matter of fact, Sweden was quite poor right after the WWII when Hans was born. The UN created a scale of how developed countries are. The scale starts with one and goes up to five. Hans found out that today’s developing counties are developing at far higher rate as Sweden did after the WWII.
“Slow change is still change”
It is a pity, Britons do not realise that and still think that Eastern Europe worst off than England, Wales and Northern Ireland (Scotland is actually cool, no kiddin’). In just a few years we are going to catch up and enjoy better quality of living than they do. Wait a sec. We already do. 😀😀😀
People go to school and then they leave. The knowledge they gained in school will become outdated within 10 years, unless they will become life-long learner like der Kaiser.
I did this mistake myself. I thought that nuclear power-plants are bad and outdated. But Bill Gates and Vaclav Smil convinced me that I was wrong. In the other words, you should be ready to update your perspective whenever confronted with a new “game changing” information.
📢 Negativity - expect bad news
Media are not going to get much attention unless they keep publishing bad news. Honestly, there is soooooooo many bad news every day I simply cannot give to fucks about what is happening in the world.
This is all happening because of our “ancient” monkey brains.
📢 Straight line - lines might bend
Some predictions by UN and WHO are just completely off. Think about business… Do all businesses grow all the time? No… Do they keep growing at the same rate as in the first years? No… Think about growing child. Children grow really fast, but do they keep growing “forever?” Lol, they don’t. So, do not get easily scarred by some fucked up predictions.
📢 Size - get things in proportion
Many numbers are alarming unless you get to compare them with other numbers.
📢 Generalisation - question your categories
Our brains generalise stuff. For example, my brain generalises all Britons as evil nazis, because I had a very bad experience in the UK. But are all Britons evil nazis? No they are not. Some of them are actually really nice. So just be aware of this principle when I generalise. 😄
📢 Blame - resist pointing your finger
Well, when something goes wrong we tend to point our fingers. “Look at that motherfucker! It all happened because of him!” That would be again a bad attitude.
📢 Urgency - take small steps
It makes you realise why Greta Thunberg is just a little spoiled autistic brat who forces us to take action. Do not worry, we are going to sort it out, but we need to chill the fuck out first. Think things through and then take an action.
Kaiser's verdict:
As Anatoly Dyatlov has said when Cernobyl exploded: “Not great, not terrible.” This book might come handy to journalists and data analysts, but I would not rate it as groundbreaking book without you cannot live further. 🙂
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