#516 - Gurwinder Bhogal - 16 Surprising Psychology Truths
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2022
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Gurwinder Bhogal is a programmer and a writer.
Gurwinder is one of my favourite Twitter follows. He’s written yet another megathread exploring human nature, cognitive biases, mental models, status games, crowd behaviour and social media. It's one of the best things I've read this year, so I just had to bring him on.
Expect to learn how bad things can sometimes feel better than good things, why people die on the hill of opinions they've only just begun believing, why intelligence plus ideology is a nightmare, how comedy can be a troll's last line of defence, the biggest lesson I learned from Joe Rogan, why regret minimisation should be a priority, why authoritarians lose sight of rationality and much more...
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Gurwinder's new MegaThread - https://twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal/status/1545510413982474253
Adam Mastroianni's post - https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/underrated-ideas-in-psychology
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome back to this show. My guest today is Gwinda Bogle. He's a programmer and |
| 0:06.3 | a writer. Gwinda is one of my favourite Twitter followers. He's written yet another mega thread |
| 0:11.4 | exploring human nature, cognitive biases, mental models, status games, crowd behaviour and social |
| 0:17.2 | media. It's one of the best things that I've read this year, so I just start to bring him back |
| 0:21.7 | on to talk about it. Expect to learn how bad things can sometimes feel better than good things, |
| 0:27.5 | why people die on the hill of opinions they've only just begun believing, why intelligence |
| 0:32.8 | plus ideology as a nightmare, how comedy can be a troll's last line of defence, the biggest |
| 0:38.1 | lesson I learned from Joe Rogan, why regret minimisation should be a priority, why authoritarians |
| 0:44.4 | lose sight of rationality and much more. I always enjoy speaking to Gwinda, which might be |
| 0:50.8 | apparent by the fact he's been on the show three times in the last year, but he's just super smart. |
| 0:55.3 | I love talking about human nature and looking at the actions that we take from a third party bird's |
| 1:02.5 | eye view. It's very, very cool and there is tons to take away from today. Also, don't forget |
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