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15 Mental Models To Understand Psychology - Gurwinder Bhogal | Modern Wisdom Podcast 385
Gurwinder Bhogal is a programmer and a writer.
I got tagged in a monstrous thread of Gurwinder's on Twitter 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 how saying ridiculous things can be a test of loyalty, why people can be too stupid to know that they're stupid, why million-to-one odds happen 8 times a day in New York City, why The Bullshit Principle is actually a thing, why everyone is seeing racism everywhere and much more...
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00:00 Intro
02:23 Twitter’s Distortion of Reality
09:24 The Peter Principle & Golden Hammer
15:58 Why the World is Full of Unrefuted Bullshit
20:50 Are Societal Expectations Too High?
32:08 Competing for Status Over Truth
46:49 Explaining The Messiah Effect
52:34 Choosing Freedom Over Reason
1:14:27 Hitchen’s Razor
1:18:37 Becoming Blinded By Focus
1:22:52 Are Stupid People Self-aware?
1:27:57 Where to Find Gurwinder
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