New Delhi July 26 (IANS) The authors of "Factfulness " described by Bill Gates as "one of the most important books" he has ever read say most people have wrong notions of important global trends.
The book by Hans Rosling a doctor and professor of international health his son and daughter-in-law sets out to help readers to recognise over-dramatic stories about the world s current condition.
Rosling says the book is his very last battle in his lifelong mission to fight devastating global ignorance and in his own words to "change people s way of thinking calm their irrational fears and redirect their energies into constructive activities".
The authors claim that when asked simple questions about global trends -- how many people around the world are poor why is the global population increasing how many girls finish school -- we according to the book systematically get wrong answers.
In the book Rosling offers a "radical new explanation of why this happens" and reveals the ten instinctive reasons that distort our worldviews.
Factfulness is a term used to refer to stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which one has strong supporting facts.
By differentiating between a "stressful and misleading" over-dramatic worldview and a fact-based worldview Rosling s book revs up one s mind with thinking tools that help get the bigger picture right.
-- IANS
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