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 whether cynical people are actually smarter, why people tend to find uncertain outcomes so intolerable, why people would rather lie than say what they really think, whether people would rather be hated than unknown, why appearing to do good has become more important than actually doing good and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Are Cynical People Actually Smarter?
(09:08) Trust in the Information Era
(19:04) Why People Hate Uncertainty
(32:36) The Truth About Censorship
(42:18) People Would Rather Be Hated Than Unknown
(50:02) Society’s Trend of Toxic Compassion
(58:31) Don’t Base Decisions on Emotion
(1:03:30) The Dynamic of Lazy Internet Insults
(1:10:05) Being Intentional About Content Consumption
(1:20:54) Convincing Ourselves of Our Own Beliefs
(1:25:46) Why You Shouldn’t Neglect Reading
(1:35:22) The Most Ignorant People
(1:40:42) Is the News Just Entertainment?
(1:51:04) What’s Next for Gurwinder
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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
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