Be Informed Not Demoralised - Insights From a Motivational Speaker

News is the fog machine of the modern mind.

A few years ago, people in thirty different countries were asked a simple question: ‘Overall, do you think the world is getting better, staying the same, or getting worse?’

In every country, from Russia to Canada, from Mexico to Hungary, the vast majority of people answered that things are getting worse.

The reality is exactly the opposite.

Over the last several decades, extreme poverty, victims of war, child mortality, crime, famine, child labour, deaths in natural disasters and the number of plane crashes have all plummeted.

We’re living in the richest, safest, healthiest era ever.

Source: Bregman, Rutger. Humankind (p. 379). Bloomsbury Publishing.

It’s hard to move forward when you can’t see clearly. So be informed but not demoralised.

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