Shocking Psychology Lessons To Understand People Better - Gurwinder Bhogal

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... Sponsors: Get the Whoop 4.0 for free and get your first month for free at http://join.whoop.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get 15% discount on Craftd London’s jewellery at https://craftd.com/modernwisdom (use code MW15) Get over 37% discount on all products site-wide from MyProtein at https://bit.ly/proteinwisdom (use code: MODERNWISDOM) Extra Stuff: Follow 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 - 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 - Get access to every episode 10 hours before YouTube by subscribing for free on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn or Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/