Factfulness: Quotes
Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Book by Hans Rosling
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Factfulness by Hans Rosling reveals the ten instincts that distort our perspective on the world, and provides a fact-based framework for understanding global progress and thinking more clearly about the future.
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Factfulness Is ... Recognizing When Frightening Things Get Our Attention
"Factfulness is ... recognizing when frightening things get our attention, and remembering that these are not necessarily the most risky. Our natural fears of violence, captivity, and contamination make us systematically overestimate these risks."
Section: 1, Chapter: 4
The Pitfalls of Categories
"Categories are absolutely necessary for us to function. They give structure to our thoughts. Imagine if we saw every item and every scenario as truly unique - we would not even have a language to describe the world around us... The necessary and useful instinct to generalize, like all the other instincts in this book, can also distort our worldview. It can make us mistakenly group together things, or people, or countries that are actually very different. It can make us assume everything or everyone in one category is similar. And, maybe most unfortunate of all, it can make us jump to conclusions about a whole category based on a few, or even just one, unusual example."
Section: 1, Chapter: 6
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