#602 - Gurwinder Bhogal - 14 Shocking Lessons About Human Nature
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2023
⏱️ 115 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 fantastic, and today we go through some of my favourites.
Expect to learn why asking questions is the most selfish thing you can do, why people create hatred in an attempt to feel love, the real danger of censorship, why it's more important to avoid being wrong than try to be right, what postjournalism is and why you need to understand it, how to win every debate even if you lose, why you should never take an internet insult personally and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening people, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Gwinda Bogal, he's a programmer |
| 0:05.7 | and a writer. He's also one of my favourite Twitter followers and he's written yet another mega-thread |
| 0:11.2 | exploring human nature, cognitive biases, mental models, status games, crowd behaviour and social |
| 0:16.8 | media. It's fantastic and today we get to go through some of my favourites. Expect to learn |
| 0:22.7 | why asking questions is the most selfish thing you can do, why people create hatred in an attempt |
| 0:28.4 | to feel love, the real danger of censorship, why it's more important to avoid being wrong than |
| 0:33.5 | to try to be right, what post journalism is and why you need to understand it, how to win every |
| 0:39.0 | debate even if you lose, why you should never take an internet insult personally and much more. |
| 0:46.5 | This guy's a beast. The insights that I get when I speak to Gwinda and when I read his work |
| 0:52.8 | I value an awful lot and they genuinely inform the way that I see the world. I am super super |
| 0:58.1 | happy to bring this to you today and it's yet another two hours of us going through just a |
| 1:03.3 | bottomless pit of interesting stuff that helps to explain the world. I really hope that you enjoy |
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