10 Powerful Lessons From the Book “Factfulness”
📗Book Review
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1. The Gap Instinct
❗The tendency to divide things into distinct and often opposing groups and imagine/project some sort of gap between them (e.g. us and them).
📺The media by nature and design drastically tends to emphasize the exceptional over the ordinary.
❗The tendency to divide things into distinct and often opposing groups and imagine/project some sort of gap between them (e.g. us and them).
📺The media by nature and design drastically tends to emphasize the exceptional over the ordinary.
2. The Negativity Instinct
🚫The tendency to notice/emphasize the negatives over positives (or in evolutionary terms, threats versus opportunities – e.g. believing that things are getting worse when they may actually be getting better).
🚫The tendency to notice/emphasize the negatives over positives (or in evolutionary terms, threats versus opportunities – e.g. believing that things are getting worse when they may actually be getting better).
3. The Straight Line Instinct
👉 The tendency to believe that things will continue as they have before.
✅Acknowledge that many things will change over time and some aspect of your life will continue as it has before.
👉 The tendency to believe that things will continue as they have before.
✅Acknowledge that many things will change over time and some aspect of your life will continue as it has before.
4. The Fear Instinct
😱The tendency to pay more attention to “frightening” things.
Risks should be calculated, not avoided. There is no way to eliminate risk without negating opportunity.
If we let our fear steer us we will miss many positive due to miscalculating situations.
😱The tendency to pay more attention to “frightening” things.
Risks should be calculated, not avoided. There is no way to eliminate risk without negating opportunity.
If we let our fear steer us we will miss many positive due to miscalculating situations.
5. The Size Instinct
The tendency to perceive things out of proportion especially when isolated numbers seem impressive.
There are two tools for your perception: Comparing and Dividing.
✅Compare your data with different data, and sources to gain a more accurate approximation.
The tendency to perceive things out of proportion especially when isolated numbers seem impressive.
There are two tools for your perception: Comparing and Dividing.
✅Compare your data with different data, and sources to gain a more accurate approximation.
6. The Generalization Instinct
👉The tendency to generalize by categories.
🟢Cultivate a habit of questioning your categories and noticing differences that can provide data for a new and refined understanding of things and groups.
👉The tendency to generalize by categories.
🟢Cultivate a habit of questioning your categories and noticing differences that can provide data for a new and refined understanding of things and groups.
7. The Destiny Instinct
🕛The tendency to believe that seemingly innate and past characteristics determine the “destiny” of people, things, groups, institutions, or cultures and that they will remain the same.
🕛The tendency to believe that seemingly innate and past characteristics determine the “destiny” of people, things, groups, institutions, or cultures and that they will remain the same.
8. The Single Perspective
❌Being always in favor of or always against any particular idea makes you blind to information that doesn’t fit your perspective.
✅Instead constantly test your favorite ideas for weaknesses.
❌Being always in favor of or always against any particular idea makes you blind to information that doesn’t fit your perspective.
✅Instead constantly test your favorite ideas for weaknesses.
9. The Blame Instinct
🔴The tendency to seek simple and clear reasons for why a bad thing occurs.
👉Look for systems, not heroes.
When something consistently works well, it is often because there is a system supporting individuals more than any one person’s heroics.
🔴The tendency to seek simple and clear reasons for why a bad thing occurs.
👉Look for systems, not heroes.
When something consistently works well, it is often because there is a system supporting individuals more than any one person’s heroics.
10. The Urgency Instinct
⚡Taking immediate action in the face of oncoming physical danger is a helpful instinct that has enabled us to survive.
✅Urgency can be helpful, but it can also amplify all of our other biases and reactions and lead us to make mistakes in panic.
⚡Taking immediate action in the face of oncoming physical danger is a helpful instinct that has enabled us to survive.
✅Urgency can be helpful, but it can also amplify all of our other biases and reactions and lead us to make mistakes in panic.
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doing wrong.
🟠 • Make time for stillness
🟠 • Master over your mind
🟠 • Practice decision-making skills
✅ Work on your mental models. Practice critical
thinking
🔹 Get your copy Here:👇
gumroad.com
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