Most people need to think twice to control their intake of sugar and fat. This will help you control your intake of drama. Next, you need to learn to recognize the common types of stories that trigger your dramatic instincts. In the book Factfulness the three founders of Gapminder describe in practice how to use these rules of thumb in all kinds of situations and illustrate it with vivid stories from real life situations.

But this attention filter is hard wired to make us care more about dramatic information, which easily leads to a stressful over-dramatic impression of the world.įactfulness is the skill to recognise the common types of stories that tend to get all the attention because they trigger our dramatic instincts. That’s why we all have an attention filter in our heads. There’s too much information for us to process it all. Part is to accept that humans don’t see reality just as it is. 1) REALIZE THAT YOU DON’T SEE THE WORLD AS IT IS. It teaches you how to recognize and avoid the most common ways information gets misinterpreted.

It helps you maintain a fact-based worldview. “The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.” - See the book Factfulness »įactfulness is a relaxing habit for critical thinking.

Factfulness book