Become an InsiderBill Gates, who reads an average of about one book per week, said reading is his favorite way to learn about a new topic, according to one of hisHere are 32 books he's given rave reviews, including "Origin Story" by David Christian and "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined" by Steven Pinker. Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist Bill Gates is an incredibly busy man, but he always makes time to read. .
Aside from a handful of novels, the books he likes are mostly nonfiction, covering his and his foundation's broad range of interests. A lot of them are about transforming systems: how nations can intelligently develop, how to lead an organization, and how social change can fruitfully happen. Here are the titles he's given glowing reviews and that changed his perspective over the past several years.In "Better Angels," Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker branches out into the history of the most contentious of subjects: violence."Pinker presents a tremendous amount of evidence that humans have gradually become much less violent and much more humane," he said, in a trend that started thousands of years ago and continued until this day.
'Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think' by Hans RoslingIn this book, the late Hans Rosling, a Swedish physician, academic, and close friend of Gates, proposes 10 obstacles that prevent people from seeing the world objectively. These include the fear instinct to the gap instinct .
"Hans gives you a breakthrough way of understanding basic truths about the world—how life is getting better, and where the world still needs to improve,"
I'll read the books I WANT to read. I'm not going to be dictated to by Bill Gates or any AI algorithm he's funding. Let me make my own choices as a human.