Lovely book

Lovely book. Everyone should hear it! I hope it will contribute towards more people paying attention to facts.

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Best Book of my Year

Beautiful written, based on well researched facts, underlined with a positive view of the world and a vision for our future, not neglecting the serious problems and challenges, but calm and focused looking at the work ahead of us. This books opens up a truthfully and honest view of the world which I can bear and work with, not loosing sight and hope. This is what this source makes it so diffrent from all the other sources I have to learn about the current state of the world.

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sachlich nüchtern und mitreißend zugleich

dieses Buch enthält nicht nur viele überraschende und wichtige Fakten, sondern auch gute Erklärungen dafür warum wir die Welt so unvollständig und verzerrt wahrnehmen. und welche Haltung dagegen hilft. Also auch ein gutes Stück Selbsterkenntnis.

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Must read for everyone!

One of the best and most enjoyable books ever!
This book manages to combine the required seriousness with a humorous and personal touch. It manages to convey incredible complex topics in a simple and understandable way to the listener without loosing out on the facts.

In short a must read for everyone!

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Brilliant

I enjoyed reading this book and will read it again.In today's world of attention-grabbing News I find myself worrying a lot about the state of the world and the future.This book has taught me a better way of taking in data/information that is presentede to me. Definitely a life changing book for me.This is a must read for everyone trying to find a better way of looking at the world.
The Narrator did a brilliant job presenting the book too.

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life changing book

the book is just amazing, truly life changer, i cannot recommend it enough. i wish i had found it sooner

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Augenöffnend

Hervorragend! JEDER sollte es gelesen/gehört haben.
Am besten gefällt mir die Wirkung auf mich selbst, da ich jetzt mit allgemein formulierten Aussagen über Dies und Jenes innehalte und mich zuerst frage, worauf beruht das eigentlich, was du gerade sagen wolltest. ERTAPPT!!!!
Trotz ernster Fallbeispiele höchst interessant, spannend und äußerst informativ. Bleibende Wirkung.
Danke.

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Essential reading

Most of us think the world is getting worse, so we get depressed, blame others and vote for change. The rise of nationalist parties, populist leaders and events such as Brexit may have been averted if more of us had realised the truth: the world is gradually and steadily getting better. While there is still plenty to do and we need to act faster, we should be encouraged by our progress as it shows we can improve the world. So how do we avoid having the wrong view of the world and making the wrong choices going forward? We read This book and start to focus on real facts rather than the drama we absorb in the media.

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5 Leute fanden das hilfreich

Important Principles, Questionable Details

Factfulness raises awareness of the gross and systematic errors the vast majority of people make on global, quantitative questions. You are likely to be surprised just how massive this problem is, and be reminded to let data, not dramatic appeals to intuition, guide your world view. The concepts are absolutely sound and useful, and for the fact questions and statistics alone, the book is worth a listen. In the details though, its results and answers should be questioned. Firstly, it suffers from an irrational love for arguments from authority. For example, it argues to not trust forecasts without assessing their reliability and precision, and also talks about the great variance in global risks and the unknown. But it also repeatedly asks you to believe in an official population forecast that goes over 80 years (!!) into the future, a guess similar to forecasting today's world at the beginning of the Second World War. More generally: the book teaches great principles, but is hypocritical about applying them. The most egregious example of this is how it teaches to avoid a constrained perspective. It gives the example of capitalistic deregulation versus socialistic regulation, and how extremists on both sides create problems. The correct answer, so the book claims, should be case-by-case, or in between the two, based on data. This (very Nordic) answer is given in great detail. It consistently treats markets as if only one kind exists, and thereby constrains the high-dimensional space of incentive systems into a literally one-dimensional solution. The question of why these systems behave as they do is left unasked; instead, the book repetitively celebrates the wisdom of the upgrade to one dimension when coming from a zero-dimensional perspective. As someone deeply convinced of the value of seeking different perspectives, I found this part very hard to listen to, especially because I believe that is this exact issue where the world most direly needs a better perspective. But when Factfulness held the crucial pieces in hand, it failed at taking the final step, reverting to Nordic Model dogma. Overall, I still recommend the book. It gives great information, raises awareness of real problems, and taught me a lot about middle-income countries and their distorted representation in the media. Please read it with an open but critical mind, befitting the spirit in which Factfulness was written.

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Factful

A wonderful written books about facts we should know, we must know, that will help us navigate our life on a much better and focused way!

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