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Hans Rosling spent his life not only understanding global health
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and how things were improving,
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but sharing that in this fun clear way.
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When some people think about the world and its future they panic!
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My name is Hans Rosling. I'm a statistician that no, no, no, no, don't switch off!
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He would compare Sweden in the past with some of the poor countries today.
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He would show very important insights about how things have changed
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and that's culminated in this book called "Factfulness".
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It's a collaboration between him and his son Ola, and daughter-in-law Anna.
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He was always criticizing the word developed and developing,
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but for the first time in this book he teaches you a categorization of four tiers
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that is super helpful and associates it with things like tier one, no bike.
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Tier two, bike. Tier three, some cars in the picture. Tier four, a lot of cars, too many cars.
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You can actually call into your head a set of pictures
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that Anna in particular has made about... Oh, that's your house,
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that's your kitchen, that's your toilet. At those four levels of wealth and that helps you
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understand that the average person is getting a lot wealthier
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and he helps you frame whenever a plane falls out of the sky versus other deaths,
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it gets ridiculously more coverage.
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The things that cause that distortive effect of news,
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he's putting it on to the individual to step back
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and have a certain framework that helps you slot in the news.
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This is one of the most educational books I've ever read.
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It covers a space that it's not easy to go learn about.
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The world would be better if literally millions of people read the book.
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I give it my highest recommendation.