Ola Rosling – författare

När vi människor får frågor om globala trender svarar vi nästan alltid fel. Studenter, Nobelpristagare och ledande politiker - alla blir besegrade i ­omvärldskunskap av aporna på zoo. Hur kan det komma sig?

I Factfulness visar Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling och Anna Rosling Rönnlund varför vi ständigt missförstår världens utveckling, och vad vi kan göra för att rätta till våra missuppfattningar. Med utgångspunkt i tio misstag vår hjärna gör visar de hur vi kan bryta med våra tankefel och förstå världen bättre.

Med samma passion och folkbildningsiver som gjort Hans Rosling berömd visar han hur vi alla kan slippa stressas av en föråldrad bild av världen. Bara genom att ha en världsbild grundad på fakta kan medborgare, politiker och företagsledare fatta rätt beslut i en globaliserad samtid.

Boken är skriven av Hans Rosling tillsammans med Anna Rosling Rönnlund och Ola Rosling.

Hans Rosling (1948-2017) var professor i internationell hälsa vid Karolinska Institutet. Han var även medgrundare av stiftelsen Gapminder, och en enormt uppskattad föreläsare och folkbildare.

Ola Rosling och Anna Rosling Rönnlund är stiftelsen Gapminders andra två medgrundare. De arbetade tillsammans med Hans Rosling under 18 år. I dag föreläser de över hela världen och deras arbete med att tillgängliggöra forskning är flerfaldigt prisbelönt.

 

Hans Rosling berättar historien om 'den mänskliga utvecklingens tysta mirakel' som bara han kan. Men Factfulness gör mycket mer än så. Boken förklarar också varför framsteg ofta sker så hemligt och tyst, och lär läsarna hur man kan se dem tydligt.

Melinda Gates

Närmare ett testamente i bokform kommer man inte. En gedigen och underhållande självhjälpsbok för världen ... De behärskar till fulländning den svåra konsten att få fakta att dansa. Det är spänstigt, personligt och hela tiden angeläget. Trion serverar nämligen oceaner av genomanalyserad kunskap i kondenserat godisformat, på en nivå som man emellanåt frestas tro att även en amerikansk president borde kunna ta till sig. Överblicken blir nästan svindlande ibland.

Dagens Nyheter

En av de viktigaste böcker jag någonsin läst - en oumbärlig guide till hur man lär sig att se klart på världen.

Bill Gates

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates“Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.” —Melinda Gates"Factfulness by Hans Rosling, an outstanding international public health expert, is a hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases." - Former U.S. President Barack ObamaFactfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective—from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases.It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. ---“This book is my last battle in my life-long mission to fight devastating ignorance…Previously I armed myself with huge data sets, eye-opening software, an energetic learning style and a Swedish bayonet for sword-swallowing. It wasn’t enough. But I hope this book will be.” Hans Rosling, February 2017.

OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases'BARACK OBAMA'One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world'BILL GATESThe international bestseller, inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world, and make you realise things are better than you thought.*#1 Sunday Times bestseller * New York Times bestseller * Observer 'best brainy book of the decade' * Irish Times bestseller * Guardian bestseller * audiobook bestseller *

OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases'BARACK OBAMA'One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world'BILL GATESThe international bestseller, inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world, and make you realise things are better than you thought.*#1 Sunday Times bestseller * New York Times bestseller * Observer 'best brainy book of the decade' * Irish Times bestseller * Guardian bestseller * audiobook bestseller *

The international best-selling phenomenon loved by BARACK OBAMA and BILL GATES in a new and updated illustrated edition'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases.' BARACK OBAMA'One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.' BILL GATES*#1 Sunday Times bestseller * instant New York Times bestseller * Observer 'best brainy book of the decade' * #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller * Irish Times bestseller * Audio bestseller * Guardian bestseller * FACTFULNESS: the stress-reducing habit of only having opinions for which there are strong supporting facts.Things aren't as bad as we think. Fact.When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world's population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of us live in poverty - we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.In Factfulness, legendary statisticians Hans, Anna and Ola Rosling offer a radical new explanation of why this happens, and reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. But when we let the bad news take on outsize proportions instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world.