Factfulness<\/p>\n
Eight out of ten of my clients may be working on changing negative thoughts during my weekly sessions. Their anxious feelings have overwhelmed them and taken over their thinking process. How did this happen? NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) says that both genetic and environmental factors contribute to these feelings of fear, worry, and panic [1]. Has a parent been diagnosed with anxiety? Is the environment filled with things that make them anxious? This all makes a difference. In the book Factfulness<\/em>, the author aims to teach us that knowing the facts can decrease these worries and change our worldview.<\/p>\n Rosling breaks down the reason for the world\u2019s skewed thinking into ten different types of instinct. I will attempt in this writing to illustrate some of those instincts in day-to-day or real-life situations. As Rosling has explained, there is a level of ignorance in this world. Some are ignorant by choice and others are excluded from the resources\/ information that will save them from their ignorant thoughts. For this reason, I chose to write for all to have a greater understanding of the instincts that Rosling notes in his writings.<\/p>\n The first instinct that he notes is the Gap Instinct. For many years I have lived in a neighborhood that is trapped between a main highway and an upper-class community. There is a shared community gym where the children play sports. While signing up my daughter the lady attempts to send me to a gym where she refers to the people as them. The difference between the gyms is that children of all races are at the gym one minute away. The gym with \u201cthem\u201d was one hundred percent black lower-income individuals and it was ten minutes away. I gather that from the sound of my voice she knew I was African American. I could assume that she was grouping the children by color instead of going by the parish rules. I can also assume that this act was racism. But are we as African Americans also placing gaps between \u201cthem\u201d versus \u201cus\u201d based on color, wealth, or religion? The gap exists because of dramatic ignorance, the true facts are that all men are created equally. Changing our worldview and specifically our spiritual view would be helpful in seeing that gaps we as humans place on things do not exist.<\/p>\n The second instinct, the negativity instinct is often encouraged by the news. The news tells us daily that crime is getting worse than ever before and from this information, we sometimes assume that the world is getting worse. The facts are that crime may have been at the exact level that it is now, but new technologies have more ways to capture these crimes. The bad news usually in our minds outweighs the true facts.<\/p>\n There are several other instincts that the author sets out to share. He hopes to educate us so that we are not afraid of when we should not be, so we are not separating ourselves into groups so that we are not anxious, and we are living in ignorance.<\/p>\n Factfulness Eight out of ten of my clients may be working on changing negative thoughts during my weekly sessions. Their anxious feelings have overwhelmed them and taken over their thinking process. How did this happen? 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