Factfulness 

written by : Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling & Anna Rosling Ronnlund

Factfulness is the book that changes your perception towards the way we see world & human progress. 

This book tells you to broaden your spectrum or levels. Let's see how? This book may seem big and boring but if you are good thinker. This book will help you gain more discussion & thoughts to explore than ever. 

There are good statistics and example in the book which makes us think . 

Let's take Chapter 1 :  The Gap Instinct

We are made to think in binary . Good & Bad, Rich & Poor , Hero vs villain . We have grown up listening to this terms and subconsciously we start thinking in binary . A majority of the people think like this. Whenever we make decisions or opinion we tend to think in this way . Work , finance, attitude , growth everything works in this. 

This book changes your view around the same. There are levels in this which are self explanatory . We just never knew. 

For e.g. Let's see the what changes at 4 levels. 

L1 : It's toughest where population is barely able to eat one full meal , walk barefoot or have basic medical system in place. It's mostly crop / agriculture driven countries .This is toughest level to grow in life.  Roughly 1 billion people live like this.

L2: At this level Population can afford to buy food from market , maybe use public transport system . This life is better that L1 but still not best. One expensive medical bill and you will fall to L1. At this level people always try to level up to L3 .  Roughly 3 billion people live like this. 

L3 : At this level people have better access to education and can get good jobs. Good jobs bring good 2 time meals and nice plans. There kids grow and get better jobs . This population has problems but may not drop to L2 . They will have mechanisms to maintain L3. Roughly 2 billion people live like this . 

L4 : At this level people have good education , good income , good medical facilities and they think about changing the lives of other 3 levels. Some may do and some may not. Roughly 1 billion people are at this level . 

There's full chapter here to help you change your thoughts towards way you think. 

If you are in decision makers or policy makers. Stop thinking binary . Think also about those mid levels where you can make difference. Around 5 billion people are living those. L4 people Work for uplifting Lower levels. L3 & L2 shuffle always . L1 is toughest to crack . 

How does this help ? When you want to make a difference you should focus on these middle levels because if they grow , They will uplift the lower levels.  To change your thoughts from binary to level approach . That's Gap Instinct. 

There are more chapters likes these: 

2. The Negativity Instinct. 

3. The Straight Line Instinct 

4. The Fear Instinct

more chapters like Size, Generalisation, Destiny , Single perspective , Blame & Urgency instincts. 

If you are able to complete this book. 

Factfulness will change your way of thinking and approach towards comparisons, fulfilments , success & failure in life. 

I can give more examples but then what's the fun in it :-) . Read it to know it . 

Recommendation people who should read this book : 

I strongly recommend this book to thinkers,  journalists, policy makers & business owners.  The book gives you a new perspective & broadens your way of thinking towards world .