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Not quite #selfguidedwomenandgenderstudiescourse but seems like a good time to learn more about thought biases.

Library says, “Hurry up! Read faster!”

Blurgh.

4/5
Excellent read to (re)view the basics of critical thinking.
Sometimes, he sounds a little too preachy, but I value his honesty when recounting the times he made mistakes in assessing situations.
Written in 2018, but already outdated when it comes to social media and algorithms. Still, it made for a very interesting discussion at my book club.
Very easy to read, very accessible.

Rosling‘s experiences were amazing, I mean what a life! I did well on the facts quiz, but my eyes were opened to some of my own biases. It was a good reminder to fact check more often ☮️

By far the best book I have read this year. It will change the way you look at the world and expose your biases. Living in a developing country, I can attest to the author's point of view that people from the west are often shocked when they visit the country as they expect to find lions and zebras cohabiting with us, and find something very similar to where they come from. The book is filled with interesting facts and stories. Highly reccomended

This book was one of my last years highlights. It changed the way I look at things and had a big impact on me. Since I borrowed it from the Library, I never had a copy of my own.

Until one day last week when I came back from lunch break and realized, that someone had dropped his/her read copy in front of our bookstore.

Of course, I adopted the book immediately. Thank you, dear stranger, you made someone very happy ❤️

Resorting books and wondering if I should start this one from 2018 for #nonfictionnovember because it will make me feel better or if I read it, will I just shake my head and be like “oh you have no idea what‘s coming?” 😂 #stupidcovid #2020isdefnotbetterthanwethink

Fellow Littens,
I can‘t wait for you to read this book and share your thoughts with me. Many online reviews claim to get it now. The overall view of the world is warped or based on incomplete or incorrect facts. Things are better than most folks think. So either I have a newly developed cynical outlook or this argument is not resonating as believable to me. Maybe I can only see the world through the current lens - it‘s a hot mess!
However...
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It holds some really astonishing facts which is hard to accept.

#Two4Tuesday

1. One of the books that I have had a lot of conversation about in 2020 is Factfulness: Ten Reasons We‘re Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. I reread this book for a dose of optimism, but somehow these facts don‘t add up the same way in light of current affairs. Mr. Rosling has passed away now. I can‘t help but wonder if the subtitle for his book would be different if it had been published this year!👇🏽

One of the best non-fiction books. Beautifully written. "This is data as you have never known it: it is data as therapy." It captures all the dramatic instincts which acts as a barrier for everyone in seeing and processing facts.

I cannot stress how much I loved this book.
One of the best non fiction books with so many eye openers.
It's a book full of amazing facts which for a change makes you feel better about the world we live it. It even gives light to some important issues regarding poverty line and statistics.
A very easy read. Read it slowly and take in every fact. You will surely love it. Trust me :D

I seriously want to mail everybody in the world a copy of this book.

Facts I learnt from this book:
1. I'm never gonna see the world in the same way as before, after reading this.
2. There is an ocean of stuff to learn even if we think we know something about the #world.
3. This book is goddamn awesome. Just read it.
#factfulness #hansrosling #respect ❤🙏

A Most Important book for current situation

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❤ Sweden ❤️

We are subjected to never-ending cascades of negative news from across the world: wars, famines, natural disasters, political mistakes, corruption, budget cuts, diseases, mass layoffs, acts of terror. Journalists who reported flights that didn‘t crash or crops that didn‘t fail would quickly lose their jobs. Stories about gradual improvements rarely make the front page even when they occur on a dramatic scale and impact millions of people.

“This is data as you have never known it: it is data as therapy. It is understanding as a source of mental peace. Because the world is not as dramatic as it seems. Factfulness, like a healthy diet and regular exercise, can and should become part of your daily life. Start to practice it, and you will be able to replace your over-dramatic worldview with a worldview based on facts.”

Hans Rosling wants: (1) To convince you that global health and living conditions are better than you think; and (2) To offer a manual of common fallacies to avoid in critical thinking. He does the first very well, and fine with the second. I have criticisms about presentation, which is sometimes misleading, and about examples outside his area of expertise. But the message is important, and I'm glad it's getting attention.

This book is all about critical thinking, based on facts and statistics - up to date facts and statistics - with an open and ready-to-be-corrected mind, capturing the reality as it is. This book tells us how our world has been improved more than what most of us think, but it‘s not the point of this book and we need to go further. This book is easy to read and I‘m glad that I read this book.

An amazing author and what a life, the book is a great read that I'd recommend to everyone. Certainly refreshing and a helpful reminder about human bias.

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.

Step-by-step, year-by-year, the world is improving. Not on every single measure every single year, but as a rule. Though the world faces huge challenges, we have made tremendous progress.

I must start by saying: I listened to this book. I have heard while discussing this book that you need to look at the book to fully appreciate the graphics/graphs/idea.
I did not find this book interesting. I don't like "gotcha" styled non fiction. This whole book seems to be built around showing how wrong we are about our negative world view. Which is fine until you pull back and realize we are all wrong which is a negative world view again.

This was really thought-provoking. I didn‘t love the tone in the introduction or first chapter - too self-help-y - but I kept reading and I‘m very, very glad I did. And now I will go to bed feeling very pleased with myself that I was able to return it EARLY. 🥳

One of the most needed books I read. Thank you

Wow! Just WOW! This book changed almost everything I thought I knew. This should be thaught at schools. Again: wow!

It's quite relaxing being humble, because it means you can stop feeling pressured to have a view about everything, and stop feeling you must be ready to defend your views all the time.

The club agrees this is a pick! Unless, that is, you‘ve read Stephen Pinker‘s The Better Angels of Our Nature, which is a more detailed and much longer look at the topic. Rosling‘s book is much more accessible and has nifty graphics.

Everyone should be required to read this

An easy read, but it really makes you rethink what you think you know about the world. Provides a new way of viewing the world from a global perspective. Also a great reminder that progress is happening daily and that we‘re better off than ever in many respects (longevity, medical advances, technology.)

I‘m barely a third of the way through this one, but there‘s so much to digest. Amazing how you can be informed, but realize that what you know about something is minuscule.

This is my book club‘s June pick and I‘m already amused.

This book is a recommended read by Bill Gates. In short, the way we view the world is based on information we learned in High School or College. And even that data may have been 10 to 20 years out of date. The world is healthier, wealthier, better educated, safer than most of us believe. The idea that the world is split in two: the developing and the developed world are outmoded ideas. The truth most of the world fall somewhere in between.

https://wellreadneck.wordpress.com/2019/05/17/factfulness-hans-rosling/

The Auckland Writers Festival was an amazing weekend 😍 #awf19

Mind broadening . Satisfies our scientific nature. Admire author for total life achievement .

I knew I was going to love this book based on recommendations from people who know me. Wasn‘t disappointed. I spend a lot of my professional life explaining some of these concepts when I deliver CBT, so some of it wasn‘t new. But I learned loads of new critical analysis techniques, and totally changed my perspective about the current ‘state‘ of the world. Would definitely recommend

Wow! This book was great! I believe that critical thinking and checking out the facts are vital to understanding the world we live in. This book really does make you feel better about the world. Well worth reading!

Hmm...love a book with graphs!. This is not as boring as it looks 😀. This book comes highly recommended by a friend of mine. It was also on Barack Obama‘s summer reading list in 2018.

Bill Gates said this book was one of the most important books he's read, he was spot on! It's truly amazing what a cynical view of the world most of us have. Hans has done all the hard work of data analysis, all you have to do is go in with an open mind, a willingness to change it and admit your strongly held views of the world might be wrong. Chloe gives it an enthusiastic paw up! #60in12challenge #factfulness #reviewswithmypup

Optimism in the world today? The struggle is real. Thank goodness for a book like this!

Fun Alert: I‘m finally reading on my new Kindle Fire. Yay!😃

I am so curious about why liberals find this book unappealing and conservatives don‘t. I found the book to be a great, if imperfect, call to have a more nimble mind.

I finished teaching the book recently. The book is a good read especially if you follow mainstream media and are tense about the world problems. It also provides an insight into data led decision making. For people who are not into DATA Sciences.

A very interesting book with ideas to take away. Lots of anecdotes to put these in context. Something I will come back to. Finished: 31st January 2019

A healthy dose of truth.

#booknbreakfast #nonfiction #readingatthetable

I really enjoyed this hopeful book which I picked up because it was on Obama‘s Best Books Of 2018 list. An interesting and thought provoking read. I also appreciated the POV brought by a non-American (Swedish) author.

I‘m really enjoying this non-fiction book. I picked it up because it was on Obama‘s 2018 best reads list. I‘m definitely getting my own education by reading it!