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I am going to rate Factufulness 5 star because I think it's a very important book, even though I have some problems with it.
Hans Rosling was a Swedish Professor of International Health and an educator of global progress trend. Factufulness was written with his son and daughter-in-law, his long term collaborators, just before his death in 2017. Factufulness lists ten instincts we often react to world events and reasons why they are probably wrong, even harmful. The ten instincts are: the Gap Inst ...more
Hans Rosling was a Swedish Professor of International Health and an educator of global progress trend. Factufulness was written with his son and daughter-in-law, his long term collaborators, just before his death in 2017. Factufulness lists ten instincts we often react to world events and reasons why they are probably wrong, even harmful. The ten instincts are: the Gap Inst ...more
Rosling, a physician and public health expert, is concerned by the wide spread misconceptions about the progress of global development and how best to tackle global problems. This book is not simply a report on current poverty rates or literacy levels, but explores why people generally hold a much more negative perception of development issues than is correct. His concern is that governments, development organizations and the general population must have a clear perception of successes, current
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Interesting and thought provoking, if occasionally somewhat condescending.
This book comes highly recommended by Bill Gates, and I appreciate what the author was trying to accomplish here. But it felt too "surface" to me, too high level, more like a self-help book on how to live more factfully than a rigorous discussion of the subject.
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Nadine in California
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