18 Psychology Lessons To Understand People Better - Gurwinder Bhogal - #662

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 129 minutes

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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 fantastic, and today we go through some of my favourites. Expect to learn why every debate is fundamentally an argument about the definition of words, whether modern men are right to believe they would be better off living in medieval times, why people fighting injustice might actually be suffering with an identity crisis, why so many people go shopping for their opinions online, how the culture divide we have today stemmed from our tribal roots, why over analysing Tweets is a waste of your time and much more... Timestamps: (00:00) The Internet is Saturated with Garbage (10:27) Why People Compare Opponents to Nazis So Quickly (14:34) Why is Happiness Evolutionary? (26:09) When Incels Think They Would Be Better Suited to Medieval Times (36:33) A Crisis of Purpose is a Privilege (41:00) Why Activists Can Never Be Content (47:14) We Don’t Take Expert Advice Unless We Agree With It (56:26) Does Karma Really Exist? (1:00:10) The Issue with Tribalism in the Digital Age (1:08:00) Intelligent People Can Often Have Stupid Opinions (1:17:09) Challenging Chris’s Vestigial Pattern Bias (1:26:15) The War for Public Sympathy on Social Media (1:39:30) Why the Female Boss Role in Hollywood Isn’t Working (1:47:27) Societal Consequences of Grind Culture (1:52:57) Judging People from the Past Whilst Ignoring the Sins of the Present (2:03:24) Where to Find Gurwinder Extra Stuff: Follow Gurwinder's Substack - https://gurwinder.substack.com/ Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Episodes You Might Enjoy: This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠ How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠ The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠ Get in touch. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome back to the show.
0:02.8	My guest today is Gwynda Bogle.
0:04.7	He's a programmer and a writer.
0:07.0	Gwynda happens to be one of my favorite Twitter follows and he's written
0:09.8	yet another mega thread exploring human nature,
0:12.4	cognitive biases mental
0:13.8	models status games crowd behavior and social media it is phenomenal and
0:18.5	today we get to go through some of my favorite lessons
0:20.8	expect to learn why every debate is fundamentally an argument
0:24.5	about the definition of words, whether modern men are right to believe that they would
0:28.4	be better off living in medieval times, why people fighting injustice might actually be suffering with an identity crisis,
0:34.0	why so many people go shopping for their opinions online,
0:37.0	how the culture divide we have today stemmed from our tribal roots,
0:40.0	why over analyzing tweets is a waste of time and much more.
0:46.0	These are some of my favorite episodes.
0:49.0	I absolutely love sitting down with people that are as smart as Quinder and getting to just dig into the best concepts and lessons.
0:56.0	They've got these ones are so high bang for your book.
1:00.0	The Insight per minute rate of these episodes are just so huge and I have so much fun
1:07.3	recording these ones I really really hope that you do listening to them.
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