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Factfulness

Chinmay Anand's Key Ideas from Factfulness
by Hans Rosling

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Worldvie

Worldvie

Forming your worldview by relying on the media would be like forming your view about me by looking only at a picture of my foot.

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Binary Thinking

Binary Thinking

human beings have a strong dramatic instinct toward binary thinking, a basic urge to divide things into two distinct groups, with nothing but an empty gap in between. We love to dichotomize. Good versus bad. Heroes versus villains. My country versus the rest. Dividing the world into two distinct sides is simple and intuitive, and also dramatic because it implies conflict, and we do it without thinking, all the time.

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Factful Balance

Factful Balance

There was a balance. It wasn’t because humans lived in balance with nature. Humans died in balance with nature.

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Freedom : A factful goal

Freedom : A factful goal

The goal of higher income is not just bigger piles of money. The goal of longer lives is not just extra time. The ultimate goal is to have the freedom to do what we want

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Human Thinking

Human Thinking

We like to believe that things happen because someone wanted them to, that individuals have power and agency: otherwise, the world feels unpredictable, confusing, and frightening.

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State Of The World

State Of The World

Does saying "things are improving" imply that everything is fine, and we should all relax and not worry? No, not at all. Is it helpful to have to choose between bad and improving? Definitely not. It's both. It's both bad and better. Better, and bad, at the same time. That is how we must think about the current state of the world.

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Why Scary?

Why Scary?

The world seems scarier than it is because what you hear about it has been selected—by your own attention filter or by the media

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CURATOR'S NOTE

As Hans Rosling says: Factfulness and the Fact-Based Worldview This book is my very last battle in my lifelong mission to fight devastating global ignorance. It is my last attempt to make an impact on the world: to change people’s ways of thinking, calm their irrational fears, and redirect their energies into constructive activities. In my previous battles I armed myself with huge data sets, eye-opening software, an energetic lecturing style, and a Swedish bayonet. It wasn’t enough. But I hope that this book will be.

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