#385 - Gurwinder Bhogal - 15 Mental Models To Understand Psychology
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2021
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Gurwinder Bhogal is a programmer and a writer.
I got tagged in a monstrous thread of Gurwinder's on Twitter 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 saying ridiculous things can be a test of loyalty, why people can be too stupid to know that they're stupid, why million-to-one odds happen 8 times a day in New York City, why The Bullshit Principle is actually a thing, why everyone is seeing racism everywhere and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:03.5 | My guest today is Gwinderbogel. |
| 0:05.5 | He's a programmer and a writer. |
| 0:07.7 | I got tagged in a monstrous thread of Gwinder's |
| 0:11.1 | on Twitter exploring human nature and cognitive biases |
| 0:14.2 | and mental models and status games and crowd behavior and stuff. |
| 0:17.8 | And it's one of the best things that I've read this year. |
| 0:21.0 | So I just had to bring him on to talk about it. |
| 0:23.8 | Today, expect to learn how saying ridiculous things |
| 0:27.1 | can be a test of loyalty. |
| 0:28.8 | Why people can be too stupid to know that they're stupid. |
| 0:32.4 | Why million to one odds happen eight times a day in New York City. |
| 0:36.4 | Why the bullshit principle is actually a thing. |
| 0:39.8 | Why everyone is seeing racism everywhere and much more. |
| 0:44.2 | This is the thing about the internet, man. |
| 0:46.4 | Like it's awful, apart from a few times when it's absolutely amazing. |
| 0:51.3 | Just finding this guy out of nowhere, bringing him on the show |
| 0:54.5 | and having this unbelievable hour and a half conversation |
| 0:56.8 | and talking about all of this stuff that I'm fascinated by. |
| 0:59.2 | Thank you to whoever it was that tagged me on Twitter. |
| 1:02.7 | This leads me quite nicely into the modern wisdom |
| 1:06.3 | locals community launching this Monday, the 18th of October. |
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