When I started “Factfulness“, I had quite mixed opinions about it. One of the first things that I noticed, was that you could literally hear the frustration in the author’s voice about people’s perception of the current world. Getting deeper into the book, I did understand the roots of this feeling better though. What I appreciated the most were the illustrative examples of Rösling’s past personal experiences and previous mistakes, around which he constructed the different chapters and lessons to be taken along the way. The author managed not to sound condescending but rather to motivate you to be more curious and more questioning of certain information presented to you on a platter.

At times the storyline seemed extremely repetitive, you got that Rösling was trying very hard to make a point and to make you remember some information, but having the same thing repeated over and over again got tiring at some point.

Nevertheless, I finished off the book with a positive impression. I genuinely enjoyed the recaps at the end of each chapter, while being very simplified, they did help you follow the main points and remember the most important ideas.

I’d suggest it to anyone who’s interested in getting a basic insight into how we should be perceiving every day news, world events and the situation of the current world, as well as the direction we’re heading towards in the future.

★★★★☆ (4/5)

_{Edition: ISBN 978-1-473-63746-7
Sceptre, 2018}