18 Psychology Lessons To Understand People Better - Gurwinder Bhogal - #662
August 3, 2023
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18 Psychology Lessons To Understand People Better - Gurwinder Bhogal - #662
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 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/
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