Knowing the story first helps us to relate to what exactly each of the instinct is about. I will not go in detail on these because I am sure you are on your way to buy this book already.Īll these ten chapters start off with a real incident that the author Hans Rosling went through. These are the gap instinct, the negativity instinct, the straight line instinct, the fear instinct, the size instinct, the generalization instinct, the destiny instinct, the single perspective instinct, the blame instinct & the urgency instinct. The authors have outlined the ten main instincts to which we stick. Read on to know how to rewire your brain so that we do not make the same mistakes. This is mainly why we have this overdramatic worldview where we always think things are worse.

Not only do we have very old facts hardwired in our brains, but we also choose to stick to those 30/40-year-old facts. The things we think are worse are not actually worst right now in the 21 st century. Us humans have an OVERDRAMATIC WORLDVIEW according to the authors. Whether you score good or bed, continue to read the book. If you think you are better than the majority of the world, just go ahead and take the test.

This questionnaire set right at the beginning of the book caught my attention, and then I simply couldn’t stop reading.Įverything we think we know about the world is wrong. Apparently, if you throw bananas with the answer options of A, B, C, then the chimpanzees’ average is 33%, which is higher than 2 out of 13 which is the average from humans. To embarrass humankind even further, there is a constant comparison of humans with chimpanzees. The average correct answer is 2 out of 13. Interesting, right? Well, it is interesting until it becomes embarrassing and then you become curious. You have to write down the answers and then check how much you got right. To groove the audience into the book, at the onset itself, there are 13 questions. This trio tell us why the world is a lot better than we think.

As the name suggests, everything in this book is based on facts & data from years’ of research. Factfulness is a book written by Hans Rosling, along with his son Ola Rosling & daughter-in-law Anna Rosling Rönnlund.

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