Q&A with Hans Rosling (Part 2): How to change Fidel Castro’s mind … and everybody else’s | TED Blog
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Q&A with Hans Rosling (Part 2): How to change Fidel Castro’s mind … and everybody else’s | TED Blog
I want people, when they realize they have been wrong about the world, to feel not embarrassment, but that childlike sense of wonder, inspiration, and curiosity that I remember from the circus, and that I still get every time I discover I have been wrong: “Wow, how is that even possible?
Hans Rosling • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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When our discussion turned to the sorry state of the economy and politics, he offered a few sharp opinions about the lack of strong leadership around the world. “I’m disappointed in Obama,” he said. “He’s having trouble leading because he’s reluctant to offend people or piss them off.” He caught what I was thinking and assented with a little smile:
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Instead, he must do battle with entrenched attitudes, outdated policies, and a culture that isn’t really sure where it’s going. Even worse, his victories may not be celebrated. On the contrary, he may well be attacked by the very people that he is trying to save.
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Every group of people I ask thinks the world is more frightening, more violent, and more hopeless—in short, more dramatic—than it really is
Hans Rosling • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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Andy Coravos: When people ask what you do, they really seem to be asking who you are, putting the attention on people’s credentials within institutions (the nouns) rather than on their actions and contributions (how they live, work, and cultivate knowledge in their fields). Expertise is equated with the former, when it should be more about the latt... See more
future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
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Will you feel fact-based hope that humanity will be able to prevent even more horrific deaths in the future? I don’t think so. Not if you function like me. Because when that camera pans to bodies of dead children being pulled out of the debris, my intellectual capacity is blocked by fear and sorrow. At that moment, no line chart in the world can in
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