factfulness ten reasons we re wrong about the world

Short summary of the book to get you interested!Īs the name suggests, Hans wants to direct the reader’s attention to basic facts about the world in terms of poverty, hunger, primary healthcare and education.He points out that even in the age of internet where factual information is readily available we often tend to think about world from pure instinct, therefore the future looks dark if we do not identify the depth of problems we think the world is actually facing.

Therefore the book ‘Factfulness’ should be a priority read for most of us so we can understand the actual reality and start focusing on the real problems, before reading this book I too was ignorant of most the basic facts about the world, for me the world looked sad and doomed for our generation and Factfulness has served as a ray of hope. It is his 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. Hans was suffering from cancer when he wrote this book so it was his very last battle in his lifelong mission to fight devastating global ignorance. It is the over dramatic worldview that draws people to the most dramatic and negative answers to author’s fact questions.(Please click on the link to answer basic fact questions to see how much you know about the world) People constantly and intuitively refer to their worldview when thinking, guessing, or learning about the world. Hans calls it the over dramatic worldview. At least that’s the picture that most people see in the media and carry around in their heads.

Things are bad, and it feels like they are getting worse, right? The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer and the number of poor just keeps increasing and we will soon run out of resources unless we do something drastic. Why did I read this book and why you should too War, violence, natural disasters, man-made disasters, corruption.

Factfulness ten reasons we re wrong about the world