Looking for new inspiration this weekend? Here are some entertainment suggestions from the Switzer team.

Book: Factfulness

Our regular contributor to the Switzer Report, Tony
Featherstone, recommended “Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World
– and Why Things Are Better Than You Think” as one of his favourite books.

The book was written in 2018 by Swedish statistician Hans
Rosling with his son Ola Rosling and daughter-in-law Anna Rosling Rönnlund.

A takeaway that Tony had from this book, which he explained
in the Switzer Report last week, was that “black-and-white
generalisations are, of course, dangerous”. This is what Rosling calls the “gap
instinct” where humans naturally and simplistically divide data into two groups
like “rich and poor”, “developed and emerging” etc.

According to Rosling’s research, tests subjects believed the
world is poorer, less health and more dangerous than it actually is. He then
offers a framework that divides our understanding of the world into four levels
of income, rather than two, and highlights ten instincts that stagnate our view
of world progress.

Bill Gates also suggested this book as one of his 5 books
worth reading for summer 2018.

Book: The Daily Stoic

If you read Peter Switzer’s Weekend Switzer article last week, you would’ve received an answer to the question: Who the f**k is Ryan Holiday?

Ryan Holiday’s book, The Daily Stoic, has come highly
recommended from Peter Switzer and Maureen Jordan as short wisdoms are offered
daily for those who appreciate philosophy but don’t have the time to fully
consume themselves into the meaning of ancient philosophy on a day-to-day
basis.

Holiday, a young millennial who previously worked in
marketing, readapts old philosophical messages and wisdoms and applies them to
a modern context, explaining how he perceives these
meanings in our modern context, while still leaving room for personal
consumption and individual meaning.

“I really don’t know
how he does it but Ryan Holiday does it fantastically well and even with his
less than auspicious academic history, his insights are unbelievably helpful
and lifechanging,” said Peter Switzer.

Quote of the Week

“It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to self-belief and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.” – Muhammad Ali

Photo of the Week

On July 13, comet NEOWISE was visible across the Earth with the naked eye. In this image, the comet was captured in Russia, but images of the comet have also been captured in the UK, Greece and more. NEOWISE has been described as Earth’s most spectacular comet since 2007.