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14 Mental Models To Understand Human Nature - Gurwinder Bhogal - #486
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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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:38) How Companies in the West Virtue-Signal
(07:35) Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidity
(12:19) Mean World Syndrome
(20:40) Two-Step Flow Theory
(26:38) Introspection Illusion
(33:58) Sayre’s Law
(41:28) Nut-Picking
(54:43) The Lesser Mind’s Problem
(1:01:03) Discussing the Word ‘Retard’
(1:09:38) The Iron Law of Oligarchy
(1:12:50) Noble Cause Corruption
(1:18:58) Fire-Hosing
(1:23:02) The Beautiful Mess Effect
(1:32:20) Where to Find Gurwinder
Extra Stuff:
Follow Gurwinder on Twitter - https://twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal
Gurwinder's MegaThread: https://twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal/status/1527720869191114756
Subscribe to 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
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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
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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…
Sponsors:
Join the Modern Wisdom Community to connect with me & other listeners - https://modernwisdom.locals.com/
Get 2 weeks Free Access to the State App at https://bit.ly/statewisdom (discount automatically applied)
Get 2 weeks free access to Wondrium by going to https://www.wondrium.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied)
Get 5 Free Travel Packs, Free Liquid Vitamin D and Free Shipping from Athletic Greens at https://athleticgreens.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied)
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:38) How Companies in the West Virtue-Signal
(07:35) Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidity
(12:19) Mean World Syndrome
(20:40) Two-Step Flow Theory
(26:38) Introspection Illusion
(33:58) Sayre’s Law
(41:28) Nut-Picking
(54:43) The Lesser Mind’s Problem
(1:01:03) Discussing the Word ‘Retard’
(1:09:38) The Iron Law of Oligarchy
(1:12:50) Noble Cause Corruption
(1:18:58) Fire-Hosing
(1:23:02) The Beautiful Mess Effect
(1:32:20) Where to Find Gurwinder
Extra Stuff:
Follow Gurwinder on Twitter - https://twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal
Gurwinder's MegaThread: https://twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal/status/1527720869191114756
Subscribe to 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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