Books that have changed the lives of billionaires Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and more

Title: "Dummy"
Author: Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
About the book: "Factfulness" explains why humans are consistently wrong to talk about the common problems the world is facing. Instead of making decisions based on facts and data, humans are largely influenced by unconscious biases. The book explores ten instincts that prevent humans from putting the world in perspective, for example, how we are more likely to pay attention to things that scare us or subjects of an impressive size and magnitude.

How it influenced Bill Gates: "Factfulness" influenced Gates' approach to some of his private foundation work, providing him with a new framework for thinking about the world. Instead of dividing the world into two wealth groups – rich countries and poor countries – the book suggests that there are actually several levels of income groups, ranging from extreme poverty where people do not can not afford shoes at levels where people have running water or enough income available to take a vacation.

It's a better way to detect progress in the world, Gates learned. When the world is divided between rich and poor countries, it is easy to think that anyone without a certain quality of life is poor, Gates wrote.

"It was a step forward for me," Gates explained on his blog. "The framework that Hans stated is the one that took me decades of global development to create on my own, and I could never have expressed it so clearly. to use this model in the future. "