14 Shocking Lessons About Human Nature - Gurwinder Bhogal | Modern Wisdom Podcast 602

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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00:00 Intro
00:57 Social Media is Making People Less Sincere
08:18 Instead of Trying to Be Right, Be Less Wrong
13:18 People are More Interested in Criticising than Helping
17:15 Never Take Information at Face Value
20:29 Becoming Trapped in a Purity Spiral
30:47 It Isn’t Coordination, It’s Cowardice
45:53 Media is Now ‘Post-Journalism’
52:51 The Majority of Evil People Had Good Intentions
59:34 Why It’s Easier to Debate Geniuses than Idiots
1:09:16 Don’t Take Social Media Attacks Seriously
1:25:28 Are People Really Judging Us?
1:32:30 The Configuration of Dominant Ideologies
1:47:50 Where to Find Gurwinder

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