
Our tendency to focus on a single cause or perspective when it comes to understanding the world (e.g. The idea that innate characteristics determine the destinies of people, countries, religions, or cultures that things are as they are because of inescapable reasons. Our tendency to mistakenly group together things or people, or countries that are actually very different. we systematically overestimate the proportions of immigrants in our countries.) Our tendency to get things out of proportion, or misjudge the size of things (e.g. Our hardwired tendency to pay more attention to frightening things. Our tendency to assume that a line will just continue straight and ignoring that such lines are rare in reality. believing that things are getting worse when things are actually getting better). Our tendency to notice the bad more than the good (e.g. Our tendency to divide things into two distinct and often conflicting groups with an imagined gap between them (e.g. Enter your email below, and I’ll send you a free PDF summary of Factfulness.įactfulness Summary 10 Instincts That Distort Our Perspective
