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Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 11
p. 65 – 70 Here the author talks about the negativity instinct. He argues that people usually misremember the past. They tend to think things were better when they were children than now when in fact,
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ONE DAY 28 - Couples Communication
ONE DAY 28 - Couples Communication
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Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 10
p. 59-64 To further indicate that the world is doing so much better than we think it is the author provides us with some charts on 32 improvements. I’ll offer short comments on a selected few playing devil’s
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ONE DAY 27 - Babysitting
ONE DAY 27 - Babysitting
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Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 9
p. 53-59 In these pages, the author talks about life expectancy and how much it has improved since the 1800s. There’s a graph on page 55 that got me doing some rudimentary research. The graph shows the
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ONE DAY 26 - Going Out
ONE DAY 26 - Going Out
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Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 8
p. 51-53 Here the author provides the good stats about extreme poverty. Spoiler alert, things were really bad in 1800, but are really good these days, meaning that the percentage of people living in extreme
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ONE DAY 25 - No Contest
ONE DAY 25 - No Contest
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science
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Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 7
P.47-51 In chapter two the author, Hans Rosling, talks about the negativity instinct. Here’s a quote from page 49, paragraph 5, for which there are no ‘buts’ from my end. “In order for this planet to have
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ONE DAY 24 - It crawls! It flies!
ONE DAY 24 - It crawls! It flies!
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science
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Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 6
Pages 39 – 46 How to control the gap instinct is a very useful section of the book. I’m not going to analyze it or even summarize it here because that’s what the book is for. First, let me just say that
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ONE DAY 23 - The Bedroom Trick
ONE DAY 23 - The Bedroom Trick
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science
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Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 5
Pages 31-39 The majority lives in middle-income countries. They are consumers, wanting to buy things like shampoo, motorcycles and…menstrual pads. Those are some examples the author cites in the same sentence.
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ONE DAY 22 - Dogs and Babies
ONE DAY 22 - Dogs and Babies
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science
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Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 4
Misconception #1 Pages 21-31 It’s really eye-opening to read this. The way the writer explains how most people no matter what labels they might use—whether it is ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ world or ‘rich’
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ONE DAY 21 - BOOK READING
ONE DAY 21 - BOOK READING
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Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 3
Chapter 1 pages 19-21 So the author talks about how child mortality rates have gone down and how the child mortality rate can be used as an indicator of how the world is doing better. About that, I suppose
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ONE DAY 20 - Mom?
ONE DAY 20 - Mom?
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Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 2
Attracted to Drama There’s at least one research paper which concludes that the human brain is wired to give more attention to negative information than positive. That has been explained away by some as
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