Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Factfulness
Factfulness is … recognizing that many things (including people,
countries, religions, and cultures) appear to be constant just because the
change is happening slowly,
and remembering that even small, slow changes
gradually add up to big changes.
To control the destiny instinct, 
remember slow change is still change.
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Keep track of gradual improvements.
A small change every year can
translate to a huge change over decades.
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Update your knowledge.
Some knowledge goes out of date quickly.
Technology, countries, societies, cultures, and religions are constantly
changing.
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Talk to Grandpa.
If you want to be reminded of how values have
changed, think about your grandparents’ values and how they differ
from yours.
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Collect examples of cultural change.
Challenge the idea that today’s
culture must also have been yesterday’s, and will also be tomorrow’s.
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CHAPTER EIGHT
THE SINGLE PERSPECTIVE INSTINCT
Why governments should not be mistaken for nails and why shoes and
bricks sometimes tell you more than numbers
Who Can We Trust?
Forming your worldview by relying on the media would be like forming your
view about me by looking only at a picture of my foot. Sure, my foot is part
of me, but it’s a pretty ugly part. I have better parts. My arms are
unremarkable but quite fine. My face is OK. It isn’t that the picture of my foot
is deliberately lying about me. But it isn’t showing you the whole of me.
Where, then, shall we get our information from if not from the media? Who
can we trust? How about experts? People who devote their working lives to
understanding their chosen slice of the world? Well, you have to be very
careful here too.