#486 - Gurwinder Bhogal - 14 Mental Models To Understand Human Nature

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Gurwinder Bhogal is a programmer and a writer.

Gurwinder is one of my favourite Twitter follows. He’s written another monstrous thread 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 why stupidity is more dangerous than evil, why most content has to appeal to midwits, why political debates are essentially mass-scaled ventriloquizism, how lower stakes lead to more vicious arguments, why the word retard is a strange choice as an unspeakable slur, why being a mess is more likeable than being perfect and much more…

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Gwinda Bogal, he's a programmer and a writer.
0:06.6	Gwinda is one of my favourite Twitter followers, he's written another monstrous thread exploring
0:12.0	human nature, cognitive biases, mental models, status games, crowd behaviour and social media.
0:17.7	It's one of the best things that I've read this year, so I decided to bring him on to get him to
0:22.5	break down all of my favourite concepts. Expect to learn why stupidity is more dangerous than evil,
0:28.7	why most content has to appeal to midwits, why political debates are essentially mass-scaled
0:34.4	ventriloquism, how lower stakes lead to more vicious arguments, why the word retard is a strange
0:40.9	choice as an unspeakable slur, why being a mess is more likeable than being perfect, and much more.
0:48.8	This guy is so good, if you don't follow him or subscribe to his sub-stack, I highly recommend
0:53.6	that you do, I always learn so much stuff, and these episodes where we just break down a big list
0:58.8	of interesting things are some of my favourites, I really, really hope that you enjoy this one.
1:05.2	Bit of an update from Modern Wisdom HQ, Andrew Huberman is finally confirmed on the show,
1:11.2	I'm going to be recording with him out here in Austin at the end of the month, and it's going to
1:16.0	be with the full production crew that we had for Jordan Peterson, so the whole thing's going to
1:20.0	be filmed in 6K on Netflix, Cinema Cameras with gorgeous sound and lighting and production,
1:25.2	and all of that stuff, this is going to be pretty special, I imagine we'll be publishing
1:30.7	probably the start of July, so this is something very big, and next week I've got an even bigger
1:37.3	announcement about another new guest coming, so stay tuned for that. In other news, this episode is
1:44.0	brought to you by StateApp. If you are not doing some daily breath work, this is a fantastic
1:49.6	place to begin, you've probably heard about the benefits of doing daily breath work for your CO2
1:53.6	tolerance, for your heart rate variability, for activating the parasympathetic nervous system,
1:58.0	and the StateApp is literally the way that I've done my breath work for probably two and a half
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