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How I Learned to Understand the World

By: Hans Rosling, Dr. Anna Paterson, Fanny Härgestam
Narrated by: Simon Slater, Christina Delaine
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The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling, Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global best seller, Factfulness, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund

This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes.

It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity and commitment that made the late Hans Rosling, author of the best-selling book Factfulness with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund, the most popular researcher of our time.

How I Learned to Understand the World is Hans Rosling’s own story of how he became a revolutionary thinker, and takes us from the swelter of an emergency clinic in Mozambique, to the World Economic Forum at Davos.

In collaboration with Swedish journalist Fanny Härgestam, Hans Rosling wrote his memoir with the same joy of storytelling that made a whole world listen when he spoke.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

"Filled with his signature warmth and wit, our late friend Hans Rosling’s memoir is an inspirational read about a life that touched so many. Hans’ work focused on data and research, but as this book makes clear, people were at the heart of his story. More than ever, our world needs the lessons Hans shares in these pages: to be guided by evidence and to live with optimism that we can make progress. This book provides a dose of hope in difficult times." (Bill and Melinda Gates)

©2020 Hans Rosling (P)2020 Macmillan Audio
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Very good follow-up to Factfulness

Hans Rosling wrote the very informative Factfulness just before his death, laying out in clear fashion why the world is better off currently than must of us believe. This follow-up memoir, apparently published posthumously, traces Rosling's early years working as a physician in Mozambique. I recommend reading Factfulness followed by this memoir. Both books are well worth your time!

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Love it

I am a big admirer of Hans and love to hear again and again about his work. I would have really liked if it was longer but I understand that sadly he died before adding more to this memoir.

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