What are your 5 most important facts?
What are the 5 most important facts that shape your worldview?
For me it would be:
Humanity is old: Homo Sapiens have been around for 300,000 years, and only writing for the past ~5,000.
We live way longer than people used to: As best we know, across all societies and times, half of children used to die. Now it’s 4%.
Almost everyone in the world is materially better off than almost everyone in history: Global average GDP per capita was about $1,000-1,500 until 1820. Now it is about $20,000.
Rich countries are vastly richer than poor countries: The income needed to be part of the global 1% is $65k/yr (after tax).
The universe is big. Like, really big. There are 10^23 stars, and the universe is 14 billion years old.
These facts are pretty undisputable.
I’m left with the view that:
My worries and troubles are pretty insignificant.
Things have gotten a lot better recently.
And there is a lot of collective work to be done to ensure they keep getting better.
What about you? What are the facts that shape your worldview?