Hi guys, today I would like to talk about a book I read some years ago, but come to my mind from time to time. It is also the book I´ve recommended the most without doubt.
It is a book to impact you and to show we are full of biases and thoughts without basis.
I knew about it searching for books to read on the internet. This one was one of the books recommend by Bill Gates (the owner of microsoft). I have not read much about this guy, I know is rich but also very very generous and very involved in some themes as enviromentalism, education and more. I decided to give it a try.
What´s it about:
It is about data. There are a lot of data. And i is about hope. It looks like the world it is not such an horrible place to live in and the author is determined to show it to you. Ir order to do it firstly you have to take a test about some data around the world. The author, who knows perfectly what you are going to answer, use your anwers to teach us about how to look at what is happening around us that we know through what we see what we read and what we are told.
He leads you throughout a trip to all the biases we live with in order to teach you how to get rid of these biases or at least how to be aware of them. Without them the world does not look so bad.
So it is a book to learn, it is also a practical book because while you are reading it, you asked yourself what´s more you see under the influence of those biases and it is quite a interesting reflection.
It is also a book to boost your hope and morale about the world you live in.
The author discovered he has cancer just when he decided to write the book so he was helped by his daughter and son in low.
By the way I told you before that is a book recommended by Bill Gates, so it is said that he had the intention to gave it as a present to all the graduates in EEUU that year.
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