![]() ![]() ![]() People often call me an optimist, because I show them the enormous progress they didn't know about. There’s no room for facts when our minds are occupied by fear. I want people, when they realize they have been wrong about the world, to feel not embarrassment, but that childlike sense of wonder, inspiration, and curiosity that I remember from the circus, and that I still get every time I discover I have been wrong: “Wow, how is that even possible? … So if you are investing money to improve health on Level 1 or 2, you should put it into primary schools, nurse education, and vaccinations. Especially mothers: the data shows that half the increase in child survival in the world happens because the mothers can read and write. I do not believe that fake news is the major culprit for our distorted worldview: we haven’t only just started to get the world wrong, I think we have always gotten it wrong.Īlmost all the increased child survival is achieved through preventive measures outside hospitals by local nurses, midwives, and well-educated parents. ![]() If you wish to read the book in its entirety, here is a link to amazonįorming your worldview by relying on the media would be like forming your view about me by looking only at a picture of my foot. Here is a collection of thought-provoking quotes on the state of the global world, humanity, our future and progress by the late Swedish doctor and professor Hans Rosling, taken from his bestseller Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think ![]()
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