{"id":81918,"date":"2018-08-20T04:22:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T11:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/bill-gates-says-this-book-is-one-of-the-most-important-hes-ever-read"},"modified":"2018-08-20T04:22:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T11:22:26","slug":"bill-gates-says-this-book-is-one-of-the-most-important-hes-ever-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/bill-gates-says-this-book-is-one-of-the-most-important-hes-ever-read","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Says This Book Is \u2018One of the Most Important\u2019 He\u2019s Ever Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bill-gates-says-this-book-is-one-of-the-most-important-hes-ever-read.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>: You\u2019ve called Hans Rosling\u2019s Factfulness \u201cone of the most important books I\u2019ve ever read.\u201d What makes it so significant?<\/p>\n<p>Gates: Hans believed the world was making remarkable progress, and he wanted everyone to know about it. Factfulness is his final effort to help people identify areas where things are getting better and spread that improvement. It explains more clearly than almost anything else I\u2019ve read why it\u2019s so difficult for people to perceive progress. He offers clear, actionable advice for how to overcome our innate biases and see the world more factfully. This is one of the most educational books I\u2019ve ever read, and I think everyone can benefit from Hans\u2019 insights.<\/p>\n<p>If the world really is improving at a faster rate than people think, why does it matter whether people have incorrect notions about it?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5224618\/bill-gates-hans-rosling-factfulness\/\">http:\/\/time.com\/5224618\/bill-gates-hans-rosling-factfulness\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>: You\u2019ve called Hans Rosling\u2019s Factfulness \u201cone of the most important books I\u2019ve ever read.\u201d What makes it so significant? Gates: Hans believed the world was making remarkable progress, and he wanted everyone to know about it. Factfulness is his final effort to help people identify areas where things are getting better and spread that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}