First of all… verified data.

"Why Ignorance of the World Is So Widespread and Deeply Rooted?”🤔 asks author Hans Rosling rhetorically.

🟢 We live in an environment of widely held beliefs that have little basis in fact. The author, a physician, presents many examples of superstitious thinking and pseudoscience that lead to a distorted view of the world.

🟢 What is most amusing (tragic) is that many such beliefs come from experts who, instead of critically analyzing the data themselves, also succumb to herd instincts and replicate commonly held beliefs, giving them the value of facts.

🟢 There are also many stories from the author's practice as a doctor and public health expert, which show how his own thought patterns led him to make mistakes in real situations that threatened people's health.

🟢 The book is written effectively, and sometimes showily 😉 like when chimpanzees get better results in tests about the world than the respected group of experts at a super important conference 😃

For me, the book is, above all, a call to critical thinking, to verify data, to read it with understanding, and to approach data sources with a great deal of caution. But also to be open to the world and other people, who are often the source of much new information. 

I recommend it 👉 J. Hans Rosling "Factfulness"