Factfulness PDF – Hans Rosling

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Factfulness is written in my voice, as if by me alone, and tells many stories from my life. But please don’t be misled. Just as the TED talks and lectures I have given all over the world for the past ten years, this book is the work of three people, not one. I am usually the frontman.

Factfulness PDF – Hans Rosling

I stand onstage and deliver the lectures. And I received applause. But everything you hear in my lectures, and everything you read in this book, is the output of eighteen years of intense collaboration between me, my son Ola Rosling, and my daughter-in-law Anna Rosling Rönnlund. In 2005, we founded the Gapminder Foundation, with a mission to fight devastating ignorance with a fact-based worldview. Factfulness PDF

I brought energy, curiosity, and a lifetime of experience as a doctor, a researcher, and a lecturer in global health. Ola and Anna were responsible for the data analysis, inventive visual explanations, data stories, and simple presentation design. It was their idea to measure ignorance systematically, and they designed and programmed our beautiful animated bubble charts.

Dollar Street, a way of using photographs as data to explain the world, was Anna’s brainchild. While I was getting ever angrier about people’s ignorance about the world, Ola and Anna instead took the analysis beyond anger and crystallized the humble and relaxing idea of Factfulness. Together, we defined the practical thinking tools that we present in this book.

Factfulness PDF – Hans Rosling

What you are about to read was not invented according to the “lone genius” stereotype. It is instead the result of constant discussion, argument, and collaboration between three people with different talents, knowledge, and perspectives. This unconventional, often infuriating, but deeply productive way of working has led to a way of presenting the world and how to think about it that I never could have created on my own. Factfulness PDF

I love the circus; I love to watch a juggler throwing screaming chain saws in the air, or a tightrope walker performing ten flips in a row. I love the spectacle and the sense of amazement and delight at witnessing the seemingly impossible. When I was a child, my dream was to become a circus artist. My parents’ dream, though, was for me to get the good education they never had.

So I ended up studying medicine. One afternoon at medical school, in an otherwise dry lecture about the way the throat worked, our professor explained, “If something is stuck, the passage can be straightened by pushing the chin bone forward.” To illustrate, he showed an X-ray of a sword swallower in action.

Factfulness PDF – Hans Rosling

I had a flash of inspiration. My dream was not over! A few weeks earlier, when studying reflexes, I had discovered that of all my classmates, I could push my fingers farthest down my throat without gagging. At the time, I had not been too proud: I didn’t think it was an important skill. But now I understood its value, and instantly my childhood dream sprang back to life. Factfulness PDF

I decided to become a sword swallower. My initial attempts weren’t encouraging. I didn’t own a sword, so I used a fishing rod instead, but no matter how many times I stood in front of the bathroom mirror and tried, I’d get as far as an inch, and it would get stuck. Eventually, for a second time, I gave up on my dream.

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