Factfulness
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Published
2018
Updated
2020
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. This book reveals the ten instincts that distort our perspective―from our tendency to divide the world into two camps to the way we consume media to how we perceive progress.
- Talks about how great/rich/amazing/brilliant our current world is (compared to the past)
- Suggests that the majority of people on earth live comparatively good lives (vs. those from the past) - most people are now "in the middle"
- Bill Gates has said that Factfulness is "one of the most important books I've ever read"
- Suggest that people are generally more pessimistic about the world than the facts prove out
- World poverty has dropped and health increased much faster than people naturally think
- Natural human biases mean that humans tend to focus on negative news