The world is much more better than we think!

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Hans Rosling, a medical doctor and had also been an adviser to UNICEF. Ola & Ana Rosling, cofounders of Gapminder foundation. A father, his son and his daughter-in-law had given us an hopeful insight about the world. They showed us how the human progress had improved the lives of billions and is still improving. The work that I am talking about is FACTFULNESS.

FACTFULNESS teaches us that how the human instinct has proved that world is becoming more and more problematic with the rising issues of terrorism, climate change, poverty, gender inequality, malnutrition, maternal mortality, etc, etc. but had failed to see the real progress that we had made. Don't think that this book just consists of plethora of statistics and data rather it provides you the reality of the world. Definitely, it contains stats but only to a certain level that even a layman is able to understand. 

With years of acquantainces and travelling across the globe they had penned down their experience in this compendium. Hans had even showed his data at world economic forum which is attended by top delegates of world but there also they were wrong in 50% of the answers. This all shows that we have lots and lots of wrong notion in our mind about the world. 

This book not only talks about problems but also about the deep-seated wrong instincts that we have. It had dictated the ten serious resons that we all possess and had thrown light for their improvement. Most people will take it to their chagrin that how come they are so wrong, well for that you will have stop being egoist and go through this book. It says about the tendency of us to dicotomize things into good v/s bad, developed v/s developing, west v/s rest is wrong. How the slow change is improving the lives of many. How the living conditions in Africa and middle-east is much more better than we think. FACTFULNESS doesn't see the world through rose-tinted eyes and turns its face aside while talking about the other rising issues, it just says that things can be 'better and bad' at the same time. You will find much more thought provoking data which will pull you out from the chasm you were in. You can also go through the TED talks of Hans on youtube and get a better understanding before putting hand on this book.

Don't consider this book as pedantic rather it is very interesting along with his anecdotes. Verbaige of this books is very lucid and apprehensible. Hans,Ola and Ana had made a creditable efforts in completing this work. With in few years the data in this book will be outdated but the analysis of human intution that is carried out is magnificent. I recommend this work to be read by each and everyone and the moment you will be finished reading it, you will say WOW! I was so wrong.

"We need to have a fact based view of world and see how much better it is than we think. We have to see and also keep on making the world a better place."

Thank you

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