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Facts teach you to avoid emotional decisions! Understand emotional instinct, make corresponding changes, get rid of irrational troubles, and put your energy into constructive behavior again! Once you have the way of thinking provided by facts, you can: stay away from anxiety, become optimistic, full of hope, become rational, find potential business opportunities and make effective decisions.
? Avoid dichotomy: the world should no longer be divided into developed countries and developing countries. Most countries are middle-income countries, and this traditional classification method can easily make you lose the potential market of modern society;
? Avoid generalizing: On the streets of some cities, you will see many half-built houses. It is easy to think that this is because the people who built the house lost their financial support or did not have a plan. In fact, this is a clever way for homeowners to store wealth;
? Avoid a single perspective: the United States ranks the world in per capita health expenditure *. However, the United States is not the longest-lived country in the world. The average life expectancy of the United States ranks only 40th;
? Avoid emotional turmoil: "You must act now, or it will be too late!" This sentence will only bring stress and anxiety. In most cases, we don't need to take immediate action, and there will still be opportunities in the future.
Brief introduction of the author
Hans rosling (1948-2007)
1948 was born in Uppsala, Sweden. Founder of "Enlightening People's Wisdom" Foundation, and one of "100 Influential People" in Time magazine. He has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization, UNICEF and other aid agencies.
From 65438 to 0997, Hans began to teach in karolinska institutet. He found that students with higher education have great misunderstandings about the world, and their thoughts and decisions are quite emotional. So he stepped onto the stage of TED talk, vividly showing the real changes that the world is experiencing with dynamic data and images, involving many topics that have attracted much attention but have never been really understood, such as population, economy and environment. His speech video has received tens of millions of hits, and every speech has won unanimous praise from the media and the public: "Data can sing in Hans' hands".
Many years later, Hans decided to write a book about his life's thoughts. After being hospitalized due to illness, he is still revising the manuscript repeatedly, trying to better show people the way of thinking he pursued all his life and the way of thinking about the world.
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