Prince Rahul's Key Ideas from Factfulness
by Hans Rosling
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• Factfulness is about the ten instincts that distort our perspective of the world and prevent us from seeing how it actually is.
10 Instincts That DISTORT Our Perspective Are:
1. The Gap Instinct
2. The Negativity Instinct
3. The Straight Line Instinct
4. The Fear Instinct
5. The Size Instinct
6. The Generalization Instinct
7. The Destiny Instinct
8. The Single Perspective
9. The Blame Instinct
10. The Urgency Instinct
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The Gap Instinct
Our tendency to divide things into two distinct and often conflicting groups with an imagined gap between them (e.g. us and them).
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The Negativity Instinct
Our tendency to notice the bad more than the good (e.g. believing that things are getting worse when things are actually getting better).
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The Straight Line Instinct
Our tendency to assume that a line will just continue straight and ignoring that such lines are RARE in reality.
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The Fear Instinct.
Our hardwired tendency to pay more attention to frightening things.
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The Size Instinct
Our tendency to get things out of proportion, or misjudge the size of things .
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The Generalization Instinct
Our tendency to mistakenly group together things or people, or countries that are actually very different.
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The Destiny Instinct
The idea that innate characteristics determine the destinies of people, countries, religions, or cultures; that things are as they are because of INESCAPABLE reasons.
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The Single Perspective
Our tendency to focus on a single cause or perspective when it comes to understanding the world (e.g. forming your worldview by relying on the media, alone).
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The Blame Instinct
Our tendency to find a clear, simple reason for why something bad has happened.
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The Urgency Instinct
Our tendency to take immediate action in the face of perceived imminent danger, and in doing so, amplifying our other instincts.
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IDEAS CURATED BY
The more one seeks to rise into height and light, the more vigorously do ones roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep — into evil.
CURATOR'S NOTE
“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.” ― Hans Rosling
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